Effect of bile acid supplementation in broiler feed on performance, carcass, cholesterol, triglycerides and blood glucose

Abstract

Abstract This study aims to evaluate the effect of the addition of bile acid to optimize the use of energy from oil in poultry feed. Two hundreds broiler 1-day old Cobb were randomly assigned to 4 treatments with 5 replicate of 10 chicks each for 35 d. The experimental treatments received a corn-soybean basal diet containing 1.5 % CPO (crude palm oil) and were as follows: 0 (control), 0.5 g, 1 g, and 1.5 g bile acids/kg of diet. Dietary of inclusion bile acids significantly tended to decrease feed intake from d 21 to d 28 (P < 0.079). However, average daily, feed intake and FCR was unaffected by dietary supplementation with bile acids in 14 d to 21 d and d 28 to d 35. The dressing percentage, abdominal fat, liver, gizzard, non significant difference (P>0.05) for broilers fed diets supplemented with bile acids. In 35-day-old broilers, serum triglycerides (TG), glucose and total cholesterol were unaffected (P > 0.05) by bile acids supplementation. The results gives a update information that supplementation of bile acid in diets could potentially for future improvement in broilers performance.