Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2014, 62(3), 477-485 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201462030477

Effects of Guanidinoacetic Acid Supplementation to Broiler Diets With Varying Energy Content

Jaroslav Heger1, Jiří Zelenka1, Vlastislav Machander2, Carlos de la Cruz3, Martin Lešták3, David Hampel4
1 Department of Animal Nutrition and Forage Production, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
2 International Poultry Testing Station, Ústrašice 63, 390 02 Tábor, Czech Republic
3 Evonik Industries AG, 10 A539, Rodenbacher Chaussee 4, 63457 Hanau-Wolfgang, Germany
4 Department of Statistics and Operation Analysis, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

An experiment was conducted to determine the response of broiler chickens to guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) added to diets with different energy levels during fattening to 35 days of age. Ross 308 male chicks were allotted to 10 treatments, each consisting of six replicates of 140 birds/pen. Five maize-soyabean meal isonitrogenous diets with decreasing AMEn levels (100, 99, 98, 97 and 96% of requirement) with or without supplements of 0.6 g/kg CreAMINO® containing a minimum of 96% GAA were formulated. The criteria of response were feed intake, body weight gains, feed conversion ratio and carcass, breast meat, leg meat and abdominal fat yields. Supplementation of broiler diets with 0.06% GAA resulted in a significant (P < 0.05) decrease in voluntary feed intake. With decreasing AMEn level, voluntary feed intake and consequently protein and amino acid intakes increased which was manifested by improved growth performance (P < 0.01). GAA supplements significantly (P < 0.001) improved feed conversion ratio and efficiency of AMEn utilization and significantly (P < 0.01) increased breast meat yield. With decreasing AMEn level, the effects of GAA supplementation tended to diminish.

Keywords: guanidinoacetic acid, energy, broiler, feed intake, weight gain, feed conversion, carcass yield, breast meat yield

Published: August 6, 2014  Show citation

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Heger, J., Zelenka, J., Machander, V., de la Cruz, C., Lešták, M., & Hampel, D. (2014). Effects of Guanidinoacetic Acid Supplementation to Broiler Diets With Varying Energy Content. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 62(3), 477-485. doi: 10.11118/actaun201462030477
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