Performance and Meat Quality of Broiler Chickens That Are Fed Diets Supplemented with Agaricus Brasiliensis Mushrooms

Overview

Journal Trop Anim Health Prod

Publisher Springer

Specialties Tropical Medicine
Veterinary Medicine

Date 2014 Aug 30

PMID 25169695

Citations 7

Authors

Joao Borges Guimaraes

Eder Clementino Dos Santos

Eustaquio Souza Dias

Antonio Gilberto Bertechini

Carla Luiza da Silva Avila

Francesca Silva Dias

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Abstract

This trial was performed to study the use of the mushroom Agaricus brasiliensis as an alternative additive to antimicrobial growth promoters in broiler chicken diets and to assess the quality of the broiler chicken breast meat of birds that are fed diets containing this fungus. Thus, 595 1-day-old chicks were reared in reused poultry litter without anticoccidial and antimicrobial additives. The results showed that a concentration of 1.6 g mushrooms/kg diet was ideal for these birds because it provided better bird performance. When the birds' immune system organs were analyzed, it was found that the addition of both mushrooms influenced the immune system organs of these broiler chickens. Adding A. brasiliensis to broiler chicken diets did not compromise breast meat quality.

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