Effect of dietary inclusion of graded levels of toasted guar meal on performance, nutrient digestibility, carcass traits, and serum parameters in commercial broiler chickens

Abstract

An experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design to explore the replacement value of toasted guar meal (TGM) for soybean meal (SBM) in commercial broiler diets. Hypothesis was tested by including graded levels (0, 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18% of diet) of TGM to replace maize-SBM on growth performance, apparent nutrient digestibility, carcass traits, and serum parameters. A total of six iso-nitrogenous and iso-caloric diets were prepared, and each diet was fed ad libitum to 12 replicates of five chicks each from 1 to 42 days of age. Results showed that inclusion of TGM up to 12% in broiler diets did not affect the body weight gain, feed efficiency, and energy digestibility. Feed intake, dry matter, nitrogen digestibility, and relative weights of ready-to-cook yields, breast muscle, abdominal fat, liver, and pancreas were not affected (P > 0.05) by incorporating TGM even up to 18% in broiler diets. Concentration of glucose, total protein, and triglyceride in serum was also not affected (P > 0.05), while serum total cholesterol concentration was found to be higher (P < 0.05) in broilers fed diets containing TGM as compared to those fed on 0% TGM diet. From the results, it was evident that TGM may be incorporated up to 12% in commercial broiler diets for better growth performance, nutrient digestibility, and carcass traits.

The Nutritive Value of Guar Meal and its Effect on Growth Performance of Meat Ducks

“…The composition of essential amino acids (EAA) Lys, Met, Thr, His, Leu, Ile, Phe, Val, Arg for poultry in SBM was 3.31%, 0.76%, 2.20%,1.48%, 4.25%, 2.55%, 2.77%, 2.63%, 3.92%, respectively (Pach and Nagel, 2018). It seemed that almost all EAA in GM is lower than SBM, except Arg, which is in accordance with Reddy et al (2017) and Pach and Nagel (2018). However, Salma et al (2015) reported that the Lys content in GM is higher than SBM, and Ile content in GM and SBM was equal.…”

“…The guar bean (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) is an annual legume belonging to the Fabaceae family, which native to Africa, and now mainly produced in India and Pakistan (Pach and Nagel, 2018). Guar meal (GM) is a byproduct from guar gum industry, obtained after mechanical separation of endosperm from both germ and hull of guar seed (Janampet et al, 2016;Reddy et al, 2017). GM contains approximately 30-60 % protein on dry matter basis (Nidhina and Muthukumar, 2015;Janampet et al, 2016;Reddy et al, 2017;Pach and Nagel, 2018) and its amino acid (AA) composition quite similar to that of ground nut cake (Verma and McNab, 1984).…”

“…Guar meal (GM) is a byproduct from guar gum industry, obtained after mechanical separation of endosperm from both germ and hull of guar seed (Janampet et al, 2016;Reddy et al, 2017). GM contains approximately 30-60 % protein on dry matter basis (Nidhina and Muthukumar, 2015;Janampet et al, 2016;Reddy et al, 2017;Pach and Nagel, 2018) and its amino acid (AA) composition quite similar to that of ground nut cake (Verma and McNab, 1984). It seems that GM is a desirable and viable protein source for animal feed formulators, especially when the rocketing prices of feed raw material.…”

“…But, at present, due to the low production of guar bean, there are few researches and applications of GM in China. Due to its high protein content and relatively low price, GM presents itself as a viable alternative to SBM to be used as a protein supplement in poultry diets (Rao et al, 2015;Reddy et al, 2017). However, previous studies about GM used in poultry diets mainly focus on broilers and laying hens (Gutierrez et al, 2007;Ehsani and Torki, 2010;Rao et al, 2014;Tyagi et al, 2014;Salma et al, 2015;Rao et al, 2015;El-Masry et al, 2017), the researches about GM used in meat duck diets is rarely.…”

Effects of dietary inclusion of GuarPro F-71 on the growth performance and nutrient metabolism in young growing pigs

“…For example, Hafsa et al (2015) reported that dietary inclusion of guar meal (25 to 75%) decreased plasma concentrations of total protein and albumin, but increased the plasma concentrations of urea nitrogen, total cholesterol, and triglycerides. Reddy et al (2017) reported that the serum concentration of total cholesterol was increased in broilers fed diets containing toasted guar meal (6 to 18%). Why dietary guar meal inclusion affected some blood nutrient metabolites in broilers but not in swine warrants further investigation.…”