Efficacy of Dietary Supplementation with Zinc-Chromium Mixture, Organic Selenium, or Their Combinations on Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, and Blood Profiles of Broilers under Heat Stress Conditions
Abdelhameed S. A. Mohamed,
Maha A. Abd El Latif,
Eman A. M. Hussein,
Enas M. A. Toson,
Mohamed Saleh,
Dariusz Kokoszynski,
Shaaban S. Elnesr,
Mohamed Mohany,
Salim S. Al-Rejaie,
Hamada Elwan
Affiliations
Abdelhameed S. A. Mohamed
Animal and Poultry Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Minia University, EL-Minya 61519, Egypt
Maha A. Abd El Latif
Animal and Poultry Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Minia University, EL-Minya 61519, Egypt
Eman A. M. Hussein
Department of Poultry and Fish Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Menoufia University, Shibin El-Kom 32514, Egypt
Enas M. A. Toson
Animal and Poultry Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Minia University, EL-Minya 61519, Egypt
Mohamed Saleh
Department of Poultry Production, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt
Dariusz Kokoszynski
Department of Animal Breeding and Nutrition, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, 85084 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Shaaban S. Elnesr
Department of Poultry Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, Fayoum 63514, Egypt
Mohamed Mohany
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, P.O. Box 55760, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Salim S. Al-Rejaie
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, P.O. Box 55760, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Hamada Elwan
Animal and Poultry Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Minia University, EL-Minya 61519, Egypt
To determine the effects of organic selenium (0.0–0.6 mg and 0.9 mg Se/Kg diet) and Zn-Cr mixture (100 mg Zn/Kg diet plus 1.5 mg Cr/Kg diet) on broiler chicken performance, carcass traits, blood hematology, and biochemistry under heat stress conditions, this study was conducted. Under temperatures between 30.21 to 31.82 °C, 240 broiler chickens (Ross-308), which were 7-day-old, were randomly assigned to one of six treatments: T1 (control), T2 (100 mg Zn per kg of diet and 1.5 mg Cr per kg of diet), T3 (0.6 mg Se per kg of diet), T4 (0.9 mg Se per kg of diet), T5 (100 mg Zn, 1.5 mg Cr and (LSe), and T6 (100 mg Zn, 1.5 mg Cr and (HSe)). At 35 days old, the chicks fed a diet containing Zn-Cr with low or high organic selenium (organic-Se) outweighed the control group in terms of live body weight, weight gain, and feed conversion ratio (p p < 0.01) in their serum levels of triglycerides, total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, creatinine, and uric acid. Together, it was found that trace elements (Zn-Cr and organic-Se) may greatly lessen the impacts of heat stress on broilers by promoting growth performance and boosting metabolic processes.
