The Effect of Using Organic Zinc, Manganese, and Chromium Chelates on the Performance and Microflora of Broiler Chicken Caecum

Subject Areas : Journal of Animal Biology

Abolghasem Rezapour ¹ (Department of Animal Science, Qaemshahr branch, Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr, Iran)
Shahabodin Gharahveysi ² (Department of Animal Science, Qaemshahr branch, Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr, Iran)
کاوه جعفری خورشیدی ³ (Department of Animal Science, Qaemshahr branch, Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr, Iran)
روح الله عبدالله پور ⁴ (Department of Animal Science, Qaemshahr branch, Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr, Iran)

Received: 2024-02-17 Accepted : 2024-05-02 Published : 2024-08-06

Keywords: Microbial population, Broiler chickens, Feed conversion ratio, Organic chelates, Body weight,

Abstract :

To investigate the effect of using organic chelates of zinc, manganese, and chromium on the performance and microbial population of the caecum of broiler chickens, the present study was conducted. This study was conducted in a completely randomized design by 420-day-old broiler chickens of Ross 308 strain in 7 treatments, 5 repeats, and 15 birds per pen for 42 days. The treatments were 1) organic form of zinc, manganese, and chromium chelate, 2) organic form of zinc and manganese chelate, 3) organic form of zinc and chromium chelate, 4) organic form of manganese and chromium chelate, 5) organic form of manganese chelate, 6) organic form of zinc chelate and, 7) organic form of chromium chelate. Performance traits including feed consumption, body weight gain, and feed conversion ratio were measured. At the end of the experiment, broiler chickens' cecum microflora was collected. Collected data were analyzed by LSmeans procedure in SAS statistical software. The effect of organic chelates on body weight in the initial period and feed conversion ratio in the growth period was significant (p < 0.05). The highest weight gain (176.6 grams) was observed in the treatment containing the organic form of chromium and the lowest weight gain (152.8 grams) was observed in the treatment containing the organic form of zinc. The highest value of feed conversion coefficient (1.1) was observed in the treatment containing the organic form of zinc, manganese, and chromium, and the lowest value (0.1) was observed in the treatment containing the organic form of chromium. The effect of organic chelates on the E. coli population of broiler cecum was significant (p < 0.05). The highest (5.65 LogCFU/g) and the lowest (5.15 LogCFU/g) E. coli bacteria populations were observed in treatments containing organic forms of zinc, manganese, and chromium and organic form of zinc, respectively. Considering the improvement of performance traits and cecum microflora of broiler chickens in this study, the use of organic chelates is recommended.

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