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The Effects of Dietary Supplementation of L-carnitine and Humic Substances on Performance, Egg Traits and Blood Parameters in Laying Hens

  • Yalcin, Sakine (Ankara University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Animal Nutrition) ;
  • Ergun, Ahmet (Ankara University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Animal Nutrition) ;
  • Ozsoy, Bulent (Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Animal Nutrition) ;
  • Yalcin, Suzan (Selcuk University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Food Hygiene and Technology) ;
  • Erol, Handan (Abant Izzet Baysal University, Mudurnu Vocational School of Higher Education) ;
  • Onbasilar, Ilyas (Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Laboratory Animal Husbandry and Research Unit)
  • Received : 2006.02.02
  • Accepted : 2006.05.30
  • Published : 2006.10.01

Abstract

This experiment was carried out to determine the effects of supplementation of L-carnitine and humic substances alone or in combination in laying hen diets on performance, egg traits and blood parameters. A total of 180 IGH type brown laying hens aged 22 weeks were employed in a completely randomized block design with one control group and three treatment groups. Each group was divided into five replicates as subgroups, each comprising 9 hens. The diets of the first, second and third treatment groups were supplemented with 0.1 g/kg L-carnitine, 1.5 g/kg humic substances (Farmagulator$^{(R)}$ Dry Plus) and 0.1 g/kg L-carnitine+1.5 g/kg humic substances, respectively. The experimental period lasted 18 weeks. Feeding supplemental carnitine, humic substances or carnitine+humic substances resulted in increases in body weight gain (p<0.05). Dietary treatments did not significantly affect daily feed intake, daily metabolizable energy intake, egg production, egg weight, feed efficiency, mortality, egg shape index, egg breaking strength, egg shell thickness, egg albumen index, egg yolk index, egg Haugh unit and the percentages of egg shell, albumen and yolk. Supplementation of humic substances reduced egg yolk cholesterol as mg per g yolk and mg per yolk (p<0.05). Blood serum parameters were not affected by the supplementation of carnitine, humic substances or carnitine+humic substances. The results in this study demonstrated that humic substances supplementation reduced egg cholesterol without adverse effects on performance, egg traits and blood parameters of laying hens. It was concluded that the usage of L-carnitine alone or in combination with humic substances in diets had no beneficial effects in laying hens.

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