Effect of Feeding Rice Based Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (rDDGS) on Gut Health, Immunity and Intestinal Histomorphometry in Broilers

Performance, Serum Biochemical Profile, Slaughter Characteristics and Nutrient Retention of Vanaraja Chicks Fed Rice-based Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles in Diet

“…The results obtained in the current study with dual-purpose rural type chickens corroborate well with the trends reported on broiler chicken by Dinani et al (2019), where r-DDGS was observed to be safe for broiler chicken up to 12.5% and at a further higher level of 15%, significant depression in growth was recorded. However, when r-DDGS was used at 12.5% level in combination with rice gluten meal (15%), adverse effects were reported on the intestinal histomorphometry and microbiology in broiler chicken (Dinani et al, 2018). The highest level (10%) tested in the current study was lower than the safe levels reported from the cited previous studies.…”

“…Attia et al (2017) also reported no effect of maize-DDGS on nutrient retention and plasma constituents in laying chickens even at 20% level in the diet. Furthermore, the length of the intestine was not affected, whereas the weight of the intestine was reduced in the groups fed r-DDGS, which was probably due to the adverse effects of r-DDGS on intestinal morphometry as reported by Dinani et al (2018) in terms of reduced villus height, villus width and villus height to crypt depth ratio, when r-DDGS was fed in combination with rice gluten meal. Breast protein content increased significantly (P<0.05) with HP r-DDGS, while moderate increment was observed with MP r-DDGS (Table 3).…”

“…In a previous study conducted at this lab, r-DDGS could be used up to 10% in broiler chicken diet and 7.5% in layer chicken, whereas at 15% in diet, r-DDGS significantly depressed the layer performance (Rama Rao et al, 2016). Similar negative effects were observed with r-DDGS at 15% in broiler diet by Dinani et al (2018;, while Gupta et al (2018) reported no detrimental effects with 10% r-DDGS in layers. Besides, the beneficial effects of r-DDGS on immunity were observed Performance, Serum Biochemical Profile, Slaughter Characteristics and Nutrient Retention of Vanaraja Chicks Fed Rice-based... at moderate levels in the broiler (Dinani et al, 2018) and layer (Gupta et al, 2017) diets.…”

“…Similar negative effects were observed with r-DDGS at 15% in broiler diet by Dinani et al (2018;, while Gupta et al (2018) reported no detrimental effects with 10% r-DDGS in layers. Besides, the beneficial effects of r-DDGS on immunity were observed Performance, Serum Biochemical Profile, Slaughter Characteristics and Nutrient Retention of Vanaraja Chicks Fed Rice-based... at moderate levels in the broiler (Dinani et al, 2018) and layer (Gupta et al, 2017) diets. Vanaraja is a dual-purpose chicken variety developed at ICAR-DPR for rural poultry farming, which is being advocated to be reared under intensive system during the juvenile phase of 0-6 weeks of age and later under free-range backyard system.…”

​Effects of Lysine and Methionine Concentration in Diet on Performance, Slaughter Variables and Serum Biochemical Profile in Slow Growing Chicks fed Rice Based Distillery Dried Grain with Solubles

“…Similarly, in broiler chicken and layer chicken, r-DDGS was found safe at 10 and 7.5% in diet, respectively (Rama Rao et al, 2016;Singh et al, 2021), whereas 15% level significantly (P0.05) depressed the layer performance (Rama Rao et al, 2016). Similar negative effects were observed with r-DDGS at 15% in broiler chicken (Dinani et al, 2018;, while no detrimental effects were reported with 10% r-DDGS in laying chickens (Gupta et al, 2018). Besides, beneficial effects of r-DDGS on immunity were observed at moderate levels in broiler (Dinani et al, 2018) and layer (Gupta et al, 2017) diets.…”