Effect of corn and wheat glutens on performance and carcass traits of broilers

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Ali  Saki ¹ (Department of Animal Science,Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University Karaj,Iran.)
Abolfazl  Zarei ² (Department of Animal Science,Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University Karaj,Iran.)
Nima  Eila ³ (Department of Animal Science,Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University Karaj,Iran.)

Received: 2023-03-08 Accepted : 2023-03-08 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: performance, carcass traits, corn gluten, wheat gluten, Ross 308 broiler chickens,

Abstract :

This study was performed to evaluate of effect corn and wheat gluten individually and combination on performance and carcass traits broiler chickens. The experiment was performed using 400 broilers Ross 308 with the same initial weight in a completely randomized design with 4 treatments and 5 replications of 20 pieces for mixed sex and in a period of 42 days. The treatments included: 1- Control. 2- Corn gluten (5 %). 3- wheat gluten (4 %). 4- Mixed corn gluten (2/5 %) + wheat gluten (2 %).The measured experimental characteristics were; feed intake, weight gain, feed conversion and production index. At the end of experimental period one bird was selected randomly from each replicate and slaughtered and carcass characteristics were measured. Results from compare means by duncan test showed that wheat gluten treatment significantly better performance in terms of feed intake, feed conversion ratio and production index is compared to other treatments. But in the case of weight gain, there is no significant difference between treatments. Wheat gluten treatment had a better carcass characteristics in terms of percentages of carcass, breast, thighs, wings and parts of the digestive system is compare to other treatments.