Desempenho e morfologia intestinal de frangos de corte na fase de crescimento, com e sem adição de nucleotídeos na dieta, em diferentes níveis proteicos

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The experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance and intestinal morphology of growing broilers, with and without addition of nucleotides in the diet at different protein levels. A total of 868 21-day-old male Cobb broiler chicks were used in a completely randomized design. The diets were: control with high crude protein (18.86%) and low crude protein (16.80%), both without nucleotides, meeting the requirement of 1.062% digestible lysine; and five treatments with the addition of 0.5 kg of nucleotides/ton of feed, with different levels of digestible lysine (1.262%, 1.162%, 1.062%, 0962% and 0.862%), all formulated based on the low-protein diet (16.80%), with four replications each. Feed intake (g) decreased linearly (P≤0.05) in the period from 20 to 27, 20 to 35, and 20 to 42 days of age; feed intake decreased by increasing levels of lysine in the diet. Feed-to-gain ratio showed a quadratic effect (P≤0.05) for birds of the period from 20 to 27, 20 to 35 and 20 to 42 days of age, decreasing as levels of digestible lysine increased, with minimum levels reaching 1.119%, 1.187% and 1.132% digestible lysine, respectively. The diet with 1.062% of lysine did not differ (P>0.05) from the negative control for villus height and crypt depth in the duodenum.

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Faveri, J. C., Murakami, A. E., Potença, A., Eyng, C., Marques, A. F. Q., & dos Santos, T. C. (2015). Desempenho e morfologia intestinal de frangos de corte na fase de crescimento, com e sem adição de nucleotídeos na dieta, em diferentes níveis proteicos. Pesquisa Veterinaria Brasileira, 35(3), 291–296. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-736X2015000300013

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