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  • Title: Exogenous dietary xylanase ameliorates viscosity-induced anti-nutritional effects in wheat-based diets for White Pekin ducks (Anas platyrinchos domesticus).
    Author: Adeola O, Bedford MR.
    Journal: Br J Nutr; 2004 Jul; 92(1):87-94. PubMed ID: 15230991.
    Abstract:
    Nutrient utilisation and growth performance responses of White Pekin ducks (Anas platyrinchos domesticus) offered diets containing low- or high-viscosity wheat supplemented with xylanase were investigated in two studies. In Expt 1, six diets consisting of low-viscosity wheat or high-viscosity wheat supplemented with 0.0, 1.5 or 3.0 g xylanase (2590 units/g)/kg diet were used in a true metabolisable energy (TME) bioassay with eight 8-week-old ducks per diet group. In Expt 2, eight pens of ten 3-d-old ducks per pen for each of six wheat-based diets arranged in a 2 x 3 factorial of low-viscosity or high-viscosity wheat and 0.0, 1.5 or 3.0 g xylanase/kg were used in a 42 d growth study. High-viscosity wheat depressed (P<0.001) TME and xylanase supplementation improved (P<0.001) TME, more so for high-viscosity than low-viscosity wheat. Xylanase supplementation of the high-viscosity wheat-based diet improved (P<0.05) weight gain and gain:feed ratio by 13 and 12 % respectively. There was no weight gain or gain:feed ratio response to xylanase supplementation of the low-viscosity wheat-based diet. Xylanase supplementation reduced (P<0.001) the viscosity of duodenal and ileal digesta for high-viscosity but not low-viscosity wheat-based diets. Ileal digestibilities of nutrients and energy were higher (P<0.001) for low-viscosity than high-viscosity wheat-based diets; xylanase supplementation improved (P<0.05) energy, fat, N and starch digestibilities. Given that xylanase supplementation of high-viscosity wheat assuaged its anti-nutritional effect, it is surmised that digesta viscosity plays a role in anti-nutritional effects in wheat-based diets for ducks.
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