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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-994-5-0260

EFFECT OF FEEDING VITAMIN D AND CAROTENOIDS ON PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS OF BROILER BREEDERS

ŠARLOTA-ANNA ŽIVOTSKÁ1, MARTINA LICHOVNÍKOVÁ1, ZDENĚK TVRDOŇ2, MARIAN FOLTYN2
1 Department of Animal Breeding, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1, 61300 Brno, Czech Republic
2 Vykrm Trebic, s.r.o., Karlov 196, 28401 Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

This work was aimed at investigating the effect of the joint effect of vitamin D3 in its hydroxylated form 25-OHD3 and canthaxanthin, on meat type parental flocks performance. These two compounds were added together to the diet, in addition to the technological instructions for the parental flocks. Vitamin D was added at level 69 ppm, i.e. 1 725 IU D3 and canthaxanthin at level 6 ppm. The effect of the administration of these additives on the number of eggs (NE), the number of eggs of hatching quality (HE), and egg weight (EW) was evaluated. Furthermore, the effect of the additives on the mortality and culling of laying females (CH) and the mortality and culling of males (CR) was monitored in the parental flocks, as well as the feed intake of laying hens (FIH) and the feed intake of roosters (FIR). Eggs were evaluated for fertilization and hatchability from individual flocks. Statistical evaluation of the data was evaluated using the Kruskal-Wallis method. A beneficial effect of the additives was observed on hatching egg production (P < 0.05). Furthermore, the additives had an effect on the reduction of laying hen culling (P < 0.001) on one of the three observed farms. The additives also had an effect on the egg hatchability parameter on one of the five farms (P < 0.05).

Keywords: parent flock; meat type; vitamin D3; canthaxanthin; hatchability; hatching egg production

pages: 260-272, online: 2024



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