Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXIII, Issue 1
Written by Petru Alexandru VLAICU, Raluca Paula TURCU, Silvia MIRONEASA, Tatiana Dumitra PANAITE
Utilization of agricultural wastes and residues resulted from food industry in animal nutrition is a matter of great concern nowadays. Dried citrus peel (DCP) and flax meal (FM) are potential sources of some valuable bioactive nutrients for animals and poultry. This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary supplementation of FM used together with two different DCP: dried orange peel (DOP) and dried red grapefruit peel (DRGP) on few breast meat quality traits of broiler chickens. One hundred-twenty broiler chicks (1 day old) were randomly allocated to three groups for the starter phase (14 d) where they were fed with a standard diet. At day 14, they were individually weighed (average 440.77 g) and homogenous assigned to three dietary treatments comprised of: basal diet (C) with 4% FM, basal diet supplemented with 2% DOP and 4% FM (DOP) and basal diet supplemented with 2% DRGP and 4% FM (DRGP), for both grower and finisher phases. At the end of the experiment (d 42) 6 broilers chicks/group were slaughtered and samples of breast meat were collected, and assayed for chemical composition, texture profile analysis (TPA), color parameter and fatty acid composition. Results of the present study indicated that use of FM together with DOP and DRGP in broiler diets significantly (P < 0.05) improved the color and some texture parameters and didn't affected the chemical composition or fatty acids from raw chicken breast meat.
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