TY  - JOUR
T1  - Effects of Green Oaks Acorns (<i>Quercus ilex</i>) Based Diets Added of Calcium Bentonite on
Growth Performance of Broilers Reared in the Cages and Ground Modes
AU - Fethia, Berkane AU - Kaddour, Bouderoua AU - Djamel, Ait-Saada AU - Attou Ghalem, Selselet- 
JO  - Research Journal of Agronomy
VL  - 15
IS  - 2
SP  - 7
EP  - 11
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1815-9354
DO  - rjagr.2021.7.11
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjagr.2021.7.11
KW  - bentonite
KW  -oak acorn
KW  -battery
KW  -soil
KW  -Broiler
KW  -performance
AB  - It is now known that the use of natural
resources and food additives rich in bioactive nutrients in
poultry diets offer better digestive use and have a proven
health impact. In this context, the use of green oak acorn
added of calcium bentonite are better suited to these tests
to improve growth and enrich the meat with a some
nutrients able to limiting the meat lipoperoxidation. In
addition, the breeding battery mode compared to the
ground mode offers better conditions and improves
productivity. This study consists of evaluating the effects
of diets based on green oak acorns supplemented with
calcium bentonite on growth performance of broilers. The
300 broilers one day-old of the ISA F15 strain were
divided into two groups, one raised on the ground and the
other in cages. Each group was divided into three
subgroups. Each subgroup receives either a standard diet
without addition of acorn or bentonite constituting the
Diet Control (DC), a diet with 19.8 g/kg of Oak Acorn
(OA) without bentonite and another diet of 19, 8 g/kg of
OA added of 2 g/kg of calcium bentonite (OAB). At
35 days-old, the animals reared on battery mode showed
the best growth performance compared to those raised on
the ground (p<0.05) (1239 vs. 1262 g). However, the
incorporation of OA slightly affects the broilers
productive performance (p<0.05) compared to the control
(DC vs OA; 1239.2 vs. 1088 g). However, at the 56th
day-old , the diet OAB diet produces the best beneficial
effects on growth performance (OAB vs. OA: 2149 g vs.
1869 g) compared to the OA diet without bentonite. This
experiment suggests that the use of green oak acorn in
chicken feed is therefore, quite possible and the addition
of 2% calcium bentonite shows the best beneficial effects
on growth performance and improvement of health status.
ER  -