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Supplementation of Avizyme 1502 to Corn-Soybean Meal-Wheat Diets Fed to Turkey Tom Poults: The First Fifty-Six Days of Age

C. Troche^*, X. Sun^*, A. P. McElroy^*, J. Remus and C. L. Novak^*,1

^* Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061; and Danisco Animal Nutrition, 780 W Army Trail Rd #192, Carol Stream, IL 60188

¹ Corresponding author: cnovak{at}vt.edu

A study was designed to determine the effects of enzyme supplementation on poults fed commercially based diets that included corn, soybean meal, and ground wheat with meat and bone meal (0 to 21 d) or Pro-Pak (22 to 56 d). Day-old turkey poults (n = 3,850) were divided into 35 pens and fed 1 of 5 dietary treatments for 56 d. Treatments were a positive control, a negative control (corn matrix adjustment of 140 kcal), and negative control diets supplemented with Avizyme 1502 at 250, 500, or 750 g/tonne. Feed intake, live weight gain, feed conversion ratio, and mortality were measured for the periods 0 to 21 d, 21 to 42 d, and 42 to 56 d, as well as for the cumulative 0 to 56 d. The 0- to 21-d period was further divided into subperiods (0 to 4 d, 4 to 8 d, 8 to 12 d, 12 to 16 d, 16 to 21 d) to evaluate early nutritional development. Ileal contents along with duodenal, jejunal, and ileal sections (n = 7/treatment) were sampled to determine apparent digestibility and morphology. In most instances, production response differences between the positive and negative controls were not significant, making definitive interpretation of enzyme addition difficult. Energy and protein ileal digestibilities of the negative control diets were lower than those of the positive control diet at 4, 8, 12, 16, and 42 d. Enzyme supplementation significantly improved energy and protein beyond that of the PC diet on d 42. Villus height and crypt depth did not respond to dietary treatment, although there was a significant interaction of age by treatment on jejunal villus height. The similarity between the controls, as well as the high inclusion of CuSO₄, may be responsible for the low response with enzyme inclusion.

Key Words: poult • Avizyme 1502 • performance • ileal digestibilities • morphology