Effect of antioxidant and adsorbent on the digestibility and digestibility of nutrients in broiler diets while reducing the risk of aflatoxicosis

Purpose: determination of the adsorbent toxin and antioxidant vitamin C on the digestibility and assimilation of nutrients in the composition of compound feed for broiler chickens with a tolerant level of aflatoxin B1. Materials and methods. The objects of the study were broiler chickens of the KOBB-500 cross. When setting up the experiment, the duration of 42 days, 4 groups of 100 heads each were formed from day-old chickens according to the principle of analog groups. The experimental birds were fed complete compound feeds (CF) based on corn, sorghum and fodder beans. The samples of compound feeds have a high chemical composition and the presence of mycotoxins. Upper limits of permissible concentrations (ULC) for aflatoxin B1 were established in all three types of feed grain. Therefore, they were mixed with safe mycotoxin additives using dispensers in the feed shop of the poultry enterprise. In this way, tolerable levels (no more than 0,25 mg/kg of feed) of the content of this mycotoxin in the composition of the PK fed to the experimental birds were achieved. Against the background of the conducted scientific and production experiment with the use of chromium oxide in the composition of compound feed (as an inert indicator) on chickens (aged 35-42 days) of comparable groups (5 heads from each group), we conducted an exchange (physiological) experiment. Based on the results of chemical analysis of the fed compound feed and excrements in the droppings of the experimental birds, the level of digestibility and assimilation of nutrients in the diet was calculated. Results. During the experiment, the leadership of the combined introduction of the adsorbent toxfin in the amount of 1500 g/t and ingredient C in the amount of 500 g/t of feed into complete feeds for broiler chickens with a tolerant level of aflatoxin B1 was established. As a result, compared to the birds of the control group, the chickens of the 3rd experimental group had significantly (р<0,05) higher coefficients of digestibility of dry matter by 3,66%, organic matter by 3,90 %, crude protein by 3,63 %, fiber by 3.06% and NFE by 3,19 %, respectively. In terms of the degree of nitrogen assimilation (60,45 %), the result (51.45 %) and phosphorus (49,67 %) from the generally accepted amount with feed, the best indicators were also obtained in broilers of the 3rd experimental group, which reliably (р<0,05) outperformed their control indicators for these indicators by 3,74 %, 2,91 % and 2,45 %, respectively.