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Growth Performance, Meat Quality and Caecal Coliform Bacteria Count of Broiler Chicks Fed Diet with Green Tea Extract

  • Erener, Guray (Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science, Ondokuz Mayis University) ;
  • Ocak, Nuh (Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science, Ondokuz Mayis University) ;
  • Altop, Aydin (Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science, Ondokuz Mayis University) ;
  • Cankaya, Soner (Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science, Ondokuz Mayis University) ;
  • Aksoy, Hasan Murat (Department of Plant Protection, Ondokuz Mayis University) ;
  • Ozturk, Ergin (Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science, Ondokuz Mayis University)
  • Received : 2010.11.30
  • Accepted : 2011.03.22
  • Published : 2011.08.01

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary green tea extract (GTE) on the performance, carcass and gastrointestinal tract (gut) traits, caecal coliform bacteria count, and pH and color (CIE $L^*$, $a^*$, and $b^*$) values of the breast muscle in broilers. A total number of 600 day-old broilers (Ross 308) was allocated to three treatments with four replicates containing 50 (25 males and 25 females) birds. The dietary treatments consisted of the basal diet as the control (0GTE) and diets with GTE at 0.1 (0.1GTE) or 0.2 (0.2GTE) g/kg. Body weights and the feed intake of broilers were measured at 1, 21 and 42 days, the feed intake was measured for different periods and the feed conversion ratio was calculated accordingly. At 42 day four birds per replicate were slaughtered for the determination of carcass and organ weights, caecal coliform bacteria count, and also quality of the breast muscle. The dietary GTE increased the body weight, feed efficiency, carcass weight and dressing percentage and decreased caecal coliform bacteria count of broilers (p<0.05). The 0GTE broilers consumed (p<0.01) less feed than the 0.1GTE birds in the entire experimental period. The relative abdominal fat weight and gut length of broilers in the 0.2GTE were tended to be lower (p<0.07) than those in the 0GTE group. The breast meat from 0.1GTE birds had a lower pH value when compared to that from 0GTE birds. The 0.1GTE broilers had lighter breast meat than 0GTE and 0.2GTE birds. The dietary GTE increased $a^*$ and $b^*$ values of the breast meat. Thus this product appeared to have a measurable impact on CIE color values of the breast meat in broilers. The results of the present study may indicate that the improved production results in the group with added GTE are directly connected with physiological mechanisms such as the regulation of the caecal micro-flora.

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