effect of feeding prilled palm fat with lyso-lecithin on broiler growth performance,nutrient digestibility, lipid profile, carcass, and meat quality

A feeding trial was carried out to investigate the effects of lecithin ongrowth performance, nutrient digestibility, lipid profile, carcasscharacteristics and meat quality of broiler chickens. a total of 240 oneday-old male broiler chicks (cobb 500) were obtained from a localhatchery and raised for 42 days. the chicks were divided into 5 dietarytreatments. the diets supplemented with prilled palm fat + 2% lysolecithin(pfl) replacing palm oil at 0%, 1%, 3%, 5%, and 7%. each treatmentgroup was divided into 6 replicates and 8 chicks per each replicate. feedand water were offered ad libitum to the birds. the individual body weightand the feed intake for each replicate were recorded. in the finisher andoverall periods, the findings showed that body weight gain (bwg) wassignificantly (p < 0.05) higher in birds fed 1% pfl compared to thosebirds fed 5% or 7% pfl. the nutrient digestibility was significantly (p <0.05) higher in broiler supplemented with 1% pfl compared to the rest ofthe treatment groups. however, no significant differences were observedagainst 3% pfl for crude fat digestibility. the breast meat color waswithin the normal range in broiler fed 1% pfl than those fed higher ratiosof pfl. the study revealed that supplementation of pfl at 1%substantially improved nutrient digestibility as well as bwg and fcrduring the overall period.