Effects of Different Levels of Artichoke (Cynara scolymus) on Growth Performance and Immune Responses of Broilers underHeat Stress

Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science

مقاله 24، دوره 4، شماره 2، شهریور 2014، صفحه 399-403   

نوع مقاله: Research/Original Article

نویسندگان

M. Effati^* ؛ F. Samadi؛ B. Dastar؛ M.A. Azari؛ S.R. Hashemi

Department of Physiology and Poultry Nutrition, Faculty of Animal Science, Gorgan University of Agricultural Science and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran

چکیده

This experiment was undertaken to evaluate the effect of dietary level of artichoke (Cynara scolymus) on growth performance and immune response of broilers under heat stress (HS). Two hundred forty day-old broiler chicks (Ross, 308) were randomly assigned to one of four dietary treatments with four replicate pens per treatment (15 birds per pen) in a completely randomized design with a 2 × 4 factorial arrangement (4 treatment diets and 2 different temperatures rearing systems). Treatment diets were: 1) control diet, 2) and 3) control diet supplemented with 15 and 30 g artichoke, respectively and 4) control diet supplemented with 300 mg/kg vitamin E. Body weight (BW) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) were not influenced by dietary artichoke (P>0.05). In the case of sheep red blood cells (SRBC), there were no significant differences between treatments. However, the control group in HS condition showed lower titer for sheep red blood cells (SRBC)while group receiving 3 percent artichoke showed higher titer )P<0.05). There was no significant difference between treatments for Newcastle antibody titer. Regardinglymphoid organs, the weights of bourse and spleen were similar, while liver weight differed between treatments. In this regard, chicks under HS in the control group had lower weight than the other groups. Lymphoid organ weights and antibody responses were significantly reduced under HS. These results indicated that HS severely reduced growth performance and immune response of broilers, whereas the immune response of broilers could be improved by dietary artichoke supplementation under HS.

کلیدواژه‌ها

artichoke؛ Broiler؛ growth performance؛ heat stress؛ immune response

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