Performance of commercial laying hens fed various phosphorus levels, with and without supplemental phytase
Open Access
- 1 August 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Poultry Science
- Vol. 76 (8) , 1172-1177
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ps/76.8.1172
Abstract
A 17-wk study was conducted to evaluate the effects of supplementing laying hen diets with a commercially produced microbial phytase. Hy-Line W-36 pullets (21 wk of age) were randomly allocated to 1 of 10 diets in a factorial arrangement of five levels of nonphytate phosphorus (0.1 to 0.5% NPP) and two levels of phytase (0 and 300 U/kg feed). Dietary metabolizable energy, protein, and calcium were maintained at 2,816 kcal/kg, 16.6%, and 4%, respectively. Criteria evaluated included egg production, feed consumption, egg weight, egg specific gravity, mortality, and various bone quality parameters. Feeding 0.1% NPP without supplemental phytase decreased egg production (hen-housed) 8.1% over the entire study and 29.6% over the last 4 wk, relative to other diets without supplemental phytase. Similarly, feed consumption of hens fed 0.1% NPP without phytase decreased 5.8% over 17 wk and 13.0% over the last 4 wk. Egg production and feed consumption were maintained at the level of other treatments without phytase when the 0.1% NPP diet was supplemented with phytase (82.1% and 82.4 g per hen per d, respectively). Egg weights and egg specific gravity decreased and mortality increased when hens consumed 0.1% NPP without phytase. Supplementing the 0.1% NPP diet with phytase completely corrected these adverse effects. No deficiency symptoms were observed in hens fed diets containing 0.2 to 0.5% NPP. Phytase supplementation of these diets gave no further improvements in performance.Keywords
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