Cottonseed oil in diets for growing broilers

Abstract

-The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of three levels of crude cottonseed oil on performance, organ weights, and blood parameters of growing broilers. Carcass and cut yields after 33 and 42 days of age and the economic viability of the diets were also evaluated. Male broilers of the Ross line were distributed in a completely randomized design, in a 4 × 2 factorial arrangement (0, 2, 4, and 6% inclusion of cottonseed oil, with and without ferrous sulfate) with five replicates. In the period from 22 to 33 days, quadratic and increasing linear effects were observed on feed intake and weight gain, respectively. Feed conversion during the same period was better with the addition of ferrous sulfate. The addition of ferrous sulfate caused a reduction in heart weight. From 22 to 42 days, carcass and cuts yield, organ weight, and intestine length were not influenced by the levels of oil or by the addition of ferrous sulfate. Supplementation with iron salts provided a lower red blood cell count and increased mean cell volume. Balanced diets formulated with up to 6% of crude cottonseed oil for broilers from 22-33 and 22-42 days of age do not affect their performance or the weight of their organs. Supplementation with ferrous sulfate improved feed conversion up to 33 days. Diets formulated with 4% cottonseed oil supplemented with ferrous sulfate are economically viable in the period from 22 to 42 days.

The effects of dietary cottonseed meal and oil supplementation on laying performance and egg quality of laying hens

“…The results of this study confirmed that 4% CSO supplementation in a layer diet adversely impacted egg production and feed efficiency. In contrast, Aguiar et al (2016) and Abdalqadir, Mohammed, Mohammad, Mohammad, and Arabi (2014) reported that the feed conversion ratio (FCR) was not affected by CSO intake in broilers. The significant effect of CSM supplementation on laying performance is similar to previous results indicating that high levels of dietary CSM significantly increased the feed gain ratio (Zeng et al, 2014) and decreased egg weights (Davis et al, 2002) (He et al, 2015) and production (Panigrahi, Plumb, & Machin, 1989), but He et al (2015) and Adeyemo and Longe (2008) reported that low levels of CSM (5.00%, 9.83%, 14.42%, and 18.90%) and cottonseed cake (3.23%-12.97%) had no effect on egg production rates or feed efficiency.…”

“…The presence of cyclopropenoid fatty acids (CFA), which consist of malvalic and sterculic acids (Hendricks, Sinnhuber, Loveland, Pawlowski, & Nixon, 1980), in CSO has been reported to adversely affect production performance and inhibit the desaturation of saturated fatty acids (SAFA) (Raju & Reiser, 1967). Several feeding trials have been conducted to determine the effects of crude CSO in poultry diets (Aguiar et al, 2016;Bai, Chen, Guo, Ge, & Huang, 2014;Lima et al, 2016), and the results indicated that crude CSO could increase the color intensity and hardness of egg yolks. Since both FG and CFA are present in crude CSO, it is difficult to determine the main impact factor exerting these adverse effects.…”

Refined cottonseed oil as a replacement for soybean oil in broiler diet

“…(Gadelha, Fonseca, Oloris, Melo, & Soto‐Blanco, ). There have been numerous studies carried out to evaluate the effects of different concentrations of free gossypol contained in diets on the performance and physiological status of broiler chickens (Mishra, Ray, Sarkar, & Haldar, ; Özdoğan, Wellmann, & Paksuz, ; Pieniazek et al., ), and also many treatment methods having been explored to eliminate the adverse influences of free gossypol, including ferrous treatment (Aguiar et al., ), microbial treatment (Khalaf & Meleigy, ), ammonia treatment (Vohra, Hafez, Earl, & Kratzer, ), and so on. Meanwhile, cyclopropenoid fatty acids, including malvalic acid and sterculic acid, are special fatty acids that can be found from oilseeds in the order malvales (Phelps, Shenstone, Kemmerer, & Evans, ; Ralaimanarivo, Gaydou, & Bianchini, ; Vickery, ), and their presence in cottonseed oil has caused many deleterious biological effects when fed to animals, such as pink white and associated defects in eggs, depression of egg production, and so on (Phelps et al., ; Shenstone, Vickery, & Johnson, ).…”

“…(Gadelha, Fonseca, Oloris, Melo, & Soto-Blanco, 2014). There have been numerous studies carried out to evaluate the effects of different concentrations of free gossypol contained in diets on the performance and physiological status of broiler chickens (Mishra, Ray, Sarkar, & Haldar, 2015;Özdoğan, Wellmann, & Paksuz, 2012;Pieniazek et al, 2015), and also many treatment methods having been explored to eliminate the adverse influences of free gossypol, including ferrous treatment (Aguiar et al, 2016), microbial treatment (Khalaf & Meleigy, 2008), ammonia treatment (Vohra, Hafez, Earl, & Kratzer, 1975), and so on.…”

Effect of cottonseed oil and ferrous sulfate in broiler diets on intestinal morphometry at 42 days of age

“…Most of the researches are related to the use of cottonseed meal, indicating that it can be included in poultry diets (Erturk et al, 2004;Carvalho and Fiúza 2008), but in high amounts it can alter the performance (Świątkiewicz et al, 2016), meat quality and sensory analysis (Torres et al, 2011), hematological parameters (Thirumalaisamy et al, 2016), feed digestibility, enzymatic activity and intestinal morphometry (Sun et al, 2013). In relation to the oil, there is little information about the performance (Abdalqadir et al, 2014) and bird health (Aguiar et al, 2016); however, no information was found on the effect of inclusion of cotton oil on intestinal morphometry.…”