Effects of Lard and Vegetable Oils Supplementation Quality and Concentration on Laying Performance, Egg Quality and Liver Antioxidant Genes Expression in Hy-Line Brown

• Main Authors: Junnan Zhang, Jiajing Chen, Jing Yang, Sijia Gong, Jiangxia Zheng, Guiyun Xu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
• Series: Animals
• Subjects: oil; laying hens; antioxidant genes; egg quality; production performance
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/3/769

This study examined the effects of various types, quality, and levels of dietary oils on laying performance and the expression patterns of antioxidant-related genes in Hy-line brown laying hens. A total of 720 40-week-old Hy-line brown laying hens were fed the same corn-soybean basal meals but containing 0.5 or 1.5% normal or oxidized soybean oil or lard, a total of 8 treatments. The results showed that laying rate (LR) and fatty acids of raw yolk were significantly correlated dietary type of oil (<i>p</i> < 0.05). With the increasing concentration of normal oil, it significantly increased LR and decreased feed conversion ratio (FCR, feed/egg) and albumen height of laying hens. The oxidized oil significant decreased the production performance of laying hens; and adding 1.5% of oxidized lard into feeds could destroy the integrity of yolk spheres of cooked yolk. mRNA expression of liver antioxidant-related genes increased when dietary oxidized oils were added into feeds. By comparing different qualities oil effect on antioxidant-related genes, the expression of Glutathione S-Transferase Theta 1 (<i>GSTT1</i>), Glutathione S-Transferase Alpha 3 (<i>GSTA3</i>), Glutathione S-Transferase Omega 2 (<i>GSTO2</i>), and Superoxide Dismutase 2 (<i>SOD2</i>) were increased when dietary oils were oxidized, in which change of the <i>GSTO2</i> expression was the most with 1.5% of oxidized soybean oil. In conclusion, the ideal type of oil for Hy-line brown layer hens is soybean comparing with lard in a corn-soybean diet, avoiding using of oxidized oil.