Effect of dietary supplementation of cinnamon oil and sodium butyrate on carcass characteristics and meat quality of broiler chicken

Abstract

Aim:An in vivo experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of supplementation of cinnamon oil (CO) and sodium butyrate on carcass characteristics and meat quality of broiler chicken compared with the antibiotic supplementation.Materials and Methods:A biological experiment was carried out with 216-day-old Vencobb-400 broiler chicks randomly distributed to six experimental treatments with six replicates, each replicate containing six chicks with equal numbers of male and female chicks. The experimental diets were prepared with isocaloric and isonitrogenous basis. The experimental groups, namely control (T1), control with antibiotic (T2), control with CO at 250 mg/kg and coated sodium butyrate (CSB) either at 0.09 (T3) or 0.18% (T4), and control with CO at 500 mg/kg and CSB either at 0.09 (T5) or 0.18% (T6). The trial was carried out in deep litter pen for 35 days. The carcass characteristics such as ready to cooked yield, eviscerated weight, heart, liver, gizzard, giblet, and abdominal fat percent in slaughtered birds and meat quality properties such as pH, water-holding capacity (WHC), tyrosine, shear force, cooking loss, thiobarbituric acid, sensory characteristics, and muscle cholesterol in breast muscle samples were evaluated.Results:The carcass characteristics such as ready-to-cook yield, eviscerated weight, and weight of heart, liver, gizzard, giblet, and abdominal fat as a percent of live body weight were not influenced by supplementation of CO and CSB at the levels attempted or by antibiotic supplementation in broilers. The pH, cooking loss, shear force and WHC of meat, appearance, flavor, texture, mouth coating, juiciness and overall acceptability of meat were not influenced by the supplementation of different levels of CO and CSB or by antibiotic supplementation but decreased meat cholesterol level in broilers.Conclusion:The results indicated that the supplementation of CO and CSB in broiler diet did not alter the carcass characteristics and meat quality parameters except meat cholesterol content in broilers.

Effect of Essential Oil and Organic Acid on Performance, Gut Health, Bacterial Count and Serological Parameters in Broiler

“…Previous studies are also in favor of us, showing that essential oils and organic acids exert better overall carcass traits (Khattak et al, 2013;Peng et al, 2016;. While some researches are against our findings, no significant effect on carcass parameters was noticed (El-Shenway & Ali, 2016;Özsoy et al, 2017;Gomathi et al, 2018). This conflict of results may be due to variation in diet composition and breeds of broilers (Peng et al, 2016).…”

Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum) Oil as a Potential Alternative to Antibiotics in Poultry

“…As Devi et al [34] suggested, no significant differences in broiler carcass traits were recorded as affected by the addition of cinnamon and ajwain essential oils at levels of 3 and 4 g/kg of feed, respectively. In addition, Gomathi et al [51] reported that carcass characteristics such as ready-to-cook yield, abdominal fat, eviscerated, liver, gizzard, heart and giblet weights as a percentage of live body weight were not changed by the supplementation of cinnamon oil at levels of 250 or 500 mg/kg and coated sodium butyrate at 0.09% or 0.18% in broiler diets. In addition, the special aroma of cinnamon is desirable in poultry diets, and causes the elevation of the carcass content of unsaturated fatty acids and the alleviation of its content of SFA.…”

The Effect of Administration of a Phytobiotic Containing Cinnamon Oil and Citric Acid on the Metabolism, Immunity, and Growth Performance of Broiler Chickens

“…Abd El-Hack et al [ 2 ] believe that cinnamon can be used as a potential alternative to antibiotics in production conditions in the poultry industry. In addition, according to Gomathi et al [ 57 ], enrichment of the diet with cinnamon-based additives beneficially increases the amount of unsaturated fatty acids in the blood and muscle, thus reducing the pool of saturated acids. Lee et al [ 39 ], however, point out that diet supplementation with cinnamon aldehyde can reduce water intake by chickens, especially females, which can be dangerous in the case of laying hens.…”