Fat-soluble vitamin supplementation levels in diets for laying hens from 28 to 44 weeks of age.

• Autor(a) principal: FÉLIX, D. O.
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: SILVA, A. S., FIALHO, A. T. S., OLIVEIRA, C. J. P, BRITO, C. O., TAVERNARI, F. de C., RIBEIRO JUNIOR, V., ROSTAGNO, H. S., ALBINO, L. F. T.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)
• Texto Completo: http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1126555; http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1806-9061-2019-1239
• topic: White eggs; Peso do ovo; Casca do ovo; Poedeira; Suplementação de vitaminas; Performance; Dieta; Egg weight

Abstratc: This study aimed to examine the impact of levels of dietary supplementation with fat-soluble vitamins on the production performance and egg quality of laying hens. Three hundred Hy-Line White W-36 laying hens were evaluated from 28 to 44 weeks of age. The birds were allotted to one of six treatments in a randomized block design with 10 replicates with five birds each. Performance and egg quality parameters were evaluated in four 28-day periods. A corn and soybean meal-based basal diet was formulated so as to meet the nutritional requirements of the animals, with the exception of fatsoluble vitamins. The treatments consisted of dietary supplementation with 0%, 33.3%, 66.7%, 100.0%, 133.3% or 166.7% of fat-soluble vitamins (100% supplementation consisted of 7500 IU, 2000 IU, 10 IU and 1.8 mg of vitamins A, D3, E and K per kilogram of diet, respectively). Eggshell weight, shell thickness, shell strength, feed intake, egg weight, feed conversion per egg mass and feed conversion per dozen eggs showed a quadratic response (p≤0.05) to the treatments, whereas egg mass responded linearly. Optimal results were obtained at an average fat-soluble vitamin supplementation level of 109%, which corresponds to 8175 IU of vitamin A, 2180 IU of vitamin D3, 10.9 IU of vitamin E and 1.96 mg of vitamin K per kilogram of diet.