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  • Title: Dietary phosphorus deficiency impaired growth, intestinal digestion and absorption function of meat ducks.
    Author: Xu H, Dai S, Zhang K, Ding X, Bai S, Wang J, Peng H, Zeng Q.
    Journal: Asian-Australas J Anim Sci; 2019 Dec 01; 32(12):1897-1906. PubMed ID: 31010980.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: An experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary non-phytate phosphorus (nPP) deficiency on intestinal pH value, digestive enzyme activity, morphology, nutrient utilization, and gene expression of NaPi-IIb in meat ducks from 1 to 21 d of age. METHODS: 525 one-d-old Cherry Valley ducklings were fed diets (with 7 pens of 15 ducklings, or 105 total ducklings, on each diet) with five levels of nPP (0.22, 0.34, 0.40, 0.46 or 0.58%) for 21 d in a completely randomized design. Five experimental diets contained a constant calcium (Ca) content of approximately 0.9%. Body weight (BW), body weight gain (BWG), feed intake (FI), and feed to gain ratio (F: G) were measured at 14 and 21 d of age. Ducks were sampled for duodenum and jejunum digestion and absorption function on 14 and 21 d. Nutrient utilization was assessed using 25- to 27-d-old ducks. RESULTS: The results showed ducks fed 0.22% nPP had lower (P<0.05) growth performance and nutrient utilization and higher (P<0.05) serum Ca content and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity. When dietary nPP levels were increased, BW(d 14 and 21), BWG and FI (all intervals), and the serum phosphorus (P) content linearly and quadratically increased (P<0.05); and the jejunal pH value (d 14), duodenal muscle layer thickness (d 14), excreta dry matter, crude protein, energy, Ca and total P utilization linearly increased (P<0.05); however, the serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity, jejunal Na+-K+-ATPase activity, and duodenal NaPi-IIb mRNA level (d 21) linearly decreased (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: The results indicated that ducks aged from 1 to 21d fed diets with 0.22% nPP had poor growth performance related to poor intestinal digestion and absorption ability; but when fed diets with 0.40%, 0.46% and 0.58% nPP, ducks presented a better growth performance, intestinal digestion and absorption function.
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