Mycotoxin Adsorbent Improves the Performance and Health of Broilers Challenged Simultaneously with Aflatoxins and Fumonisins

Verônica Lisboa Santos; Juliana Bueno da Silva; Franciane Cristina de Figueiredo; Carlos Paulo Henrique Ronchi

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Mycotoxin Adsorbent Improves the Performance and Health of Broilers Challenged Simultaneously with Aflatoxins and Fumonisins

Verônica Lisboa Santos, Juliana Bueno da Silva, Franciane Cristina de Figueiredo, Carlos Paulo Henrique Ronchi

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In poultry production, aflatoxins and fumonisins stand out as being two of the main mycotoxins that compromise the performance and health of animals, with serious damage to the producer. It should be noted that, in most cases, the losses are potentiated because the rations are contaminated, simultaneously, by two or more mycotoxins, giving rise to additive or synergistic effects, which means that the general toxicity is not just the sum, but the multiple the individual toxicities of mycotoxins, increasing the damage. We have utilized 540 broilers, distributed in a completely randomized design with three treatments and six replications. A broad-spectrum mycotoxin adsorbent (YES – FIX HP^®) was tested, added at 2.5kg/ton in diets contaminated with 1.0ppm aflatoxin + 50.0ppm fumonisin. Evaluating a control diet without contamination (T1), a contaminated diet without adsorbent (T2), and a contaminated diet + adsorbent (2.5kg/ton). The following parameters were evaluated: feed intake, body weight, daily weight gain, feed conversion, and productive efficiency index. On the last day of the experimental period, the birds were slaughtered for the evaluation of the following parameters: relative liver weight, jejunal histomorphometry, intestinal absorption area, and histopathology of the Fabricius bursa and liver. The birds in the treatment challenged with the inclusion of the adsorbent had greater live weight and daily weight gain, a greater relationship between villus height and crypt depth, greater intestinal absorption area, and less frequent and more frequent histopathological lesions in the liver and bursa of Fabricius, light compared to the contaminated treatment without the adsorbent. Given the observed data, it is concluded that the tested adsorbent was able to mitigate the deleterious effects caused by mycotoxins in relation to the productive performance, in addition to exerting a positive action on the health status of the animals.

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Bursa of Fabricius, Feed Conversion, Health, Histopathology, Immunology, Liver, Organic Selenium, Silymarin, Weight Gain

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