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Effect of dietary vicine and vitamin E supplementation on the productive performance of growing and laying chickens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2007

David S. Muduuli ,
Ronald R. Marquardt  and
Wilhelm Guenter
David S. Muduuli
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada
Ronald R. Marquardt
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada
Wilhelm Guenter
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada
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1. Experiments were conducted to study the effects of dietary vicine (2, 6-diamino-4, 5 dihydroxy pyrimidine-5 (β-D-glucopyranoside)) and supplemental vitamin E on the performance of laying hens and growing chicks.

2. Chicks fed on diets that contained vicine had similar growth rates but slightly higher levels of spontaneous haemolysis of erythrocytes than birds fed on a control diet.

3. Vicine when fed to laying hens had a very dramatic effect. It depressed food consumption, egg weight, fertility and hatchability of eggs, packed cell volume and erythrocyte haemoglobin levels and led to increased liver weights, liver glutathione levels, liver and plasma lipid levels, plasma lipid peroxide levels and erythrocyte haemolysis in vitro. Liver protein and plasma vitamin E:lipid levels were not altered. Vitamin E supplementation slightly increased egg weights, markedly improved fertility and hatchability of eggs and lowered liver weights and lipid levels but did not affect the other factors examined.

4. It is concluded that vicine which was isolated from faba beans (Vicia faba L.) has a marked influence on the metabolism of the laying hen and only a slight effect on the growing chick. Vicine or its metabolites or both cause peroxidation of cellular components which result in abnormal lipid transport or synthesis or both, increased fragility of erythrocytes, and reduced fertility. These effects are overcome to varying extents by supplemental vitamin E.

Type
Paper on General Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , January 1982 , pp. 53 - 60
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1982

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