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Response of laying hens to L-arginine,L-citrulline and guanidinoacetic acid supplementation in reduced protein diet
Authors:Hiep Thi Dao  Nishchal K. Sharma  Emma J. Bradbury  Robert A. Swick
Affiliation:School of Environmental and Rural Science,Faculty of Science,Agriculture,Business and Law,University of New England,2351,New South Wales,Australia;Faculty of Animal Science,Vietnam National University of Agriculture,Trau Quy Town,Gia Lam District,Hanoi,Viet Nam;School of Environmental and Rural Science,Faculty of Science,Agriculture,Business and Law,University of New England,2351,New South Wales,Australia;Ridley AgriProducts,Level 4,565 Bourke Street,Melbourne,VIC,Australia
Abstract:A study was conducted with Hy-Line Brown laying hens to examine the effects of reduced protein diet, deficiency of arginine (Arg), and addition of crystalline Arg, citrulline (Cit) and guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) as substitutes for Arg. Hen performance, egg quality, serum uric acid, liver and reproductive organ weights, and energy and protein digestibility were measured using a completely randomized design with 5 treatments. Treatments were a standard diet (17% protein diet; SP), a reduced diet (13% protein diet deficient in Arg; RP) and RP with added Arg (0.35%, RP-Arg), GAA (0.46% equivalent to 0.35% Arg, RP-GAA) or Cit (0.35%, RP-Cit) to the level of SP. It was hypothesized that performance would decrease with Arg deficient RP diet and the addition of GAA or Cit in RP would allow birds to perform similar or greater than Arg-added RP treatment. The experiment was conducted from 20 to 39 wk of age but the treatment effect was seen only after 29 wk of age. The birds offered RP had reduced egg and albumin weights (P < 0.01), lower yolk color score (P < 0.01), lower protein intake and excretion (P < 0.01) than those offered SP. When Arg or Cit were added to RP to make them equivalent to SP, feed intake (FI) and egg production were not different than those of RP (P > 0.05). The birds offered RP-GAA decreased FI and egg production (P < 0.01) compared to those offered RP. The addition of Arg, Cit or GAA to the RP had no effect on egg quality parameters, protein and energy digestibilities (P > 0.05). However, birds offered the RP-Cit diet tended to have higher Haugh unit (P = 0.095) and lower shell breaking strength (P = 0.088) compared to all other treatments while those offered RP-GAA had higher energy digestibility (P < 0.05) than all other groups but RP. The limited performance response of hens fed RP with added Arg, GAA, or Cit may be due to deficiency of some other nutrients in RP such as phenylalanine, potassium or non-essential amino acids and other components of soybean meal in the diet.
Keywords:Arginine   Citrulline   Guanidinoacetic acid   Laying hen   Reduced protein
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