[{
  "type": "article-journal",
  "title": "INFLUENCE OF DIETARY BETAINE ON NUTRIENT UTILIZATION AND DIGESTIVE ENZYME ACTIVITY IN YELLOW-FEATHER BROILERS DURING STARTER PHASE",
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Liu",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Ou",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Yuan",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Sun",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Xiao",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Zhao",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "An",
      "given": ""
    }
  ],
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [[2020]]
  },
  "container-title": "Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences",
  "ISSN": "1018-7081",
  "volume": "30",
  "issue": "1",
  "page": "251-254",
  "DOI": "https://doi.org/10.36899/JAPS.2020.1.0029",
  "abstract": "<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: normal; margin: 12.0pt 0cm .0001pt 0cm;\">The present experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary supplementation with&nbsp;<a id=\"OLE_LINK14\" name=\"OLE_LINK14\"></a>different levels of betaine on nutrient utilization and digestive enzyme activity in indigenous yellow-feather broilers during starter phase. A total of 288 male, one-d-old Huaixiang chickens with an average initial body weight (BW) of 44.52 &plusmn; 1.07 g were randomly allotted to 4 treatments. Each dietary treatment consisted of 6 replicates, with 12 birds per replicate. The 4 dietary treatments were corn-soybean meal-based diets and supplemented with 0, 500, 1000 and 2000 mg/kg betaine, respectively. The trial period lasted 28 d. It was found that dietary betaine supplementation improved the calcium (Ca) utilization (cubic, P=0.0187). Meanwhile, dietary supplementation with different levels of betaine increased the trypsin activity (quadratic, P=0.0445) and lipase activity (cubic, P=0.0344) of the jejunum. Taken together, this study revealed that betaine could promote the digestive function in indigenous yellow-feather broilers during starter phase.</p>",
  "publisher": "Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum",
  "URL": "https://thejaps.org.pk/AbstractView.aspx?mid=AS-19-0059"
}]