%0 Journal Article %T The ameliorative effect of mycosorb in aflatoxin contaminated diet of broiler chickens %J Journal of Livestock Science and Technologies %I Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman and Iranian Society of Animal Science %Z 2322-3553 %A Saki, A. %A Rahmani, A. %A Mahmoudi, H. %A Tabatabaei, M. M. %A Zamani, P. %A Khosravi, A. R. %D 2018 %\ 04/23/2018 %V 6 %N 1 %P 39-47 %! The ameliorative effect of mycosorb in aflatoxin contaminated diet of broiler chickens %K Aflatoxin %K broiler %K Mycosorb %K protein digestibility %R 10.22103/jlst.2018.8827.1154 %X This experiment was conducted to study the effect of Aflatoxins (AF) on broiler performance, organ weight, plasma characteristics, protein digestibility, and metabolizable energy of the diets. Dietary treatments were: 1) control diet based on corn and soybean meal; 2, 3 and 4) control diet plus 1 mg kg-1 AF, 1 mg kg-1 AF and 0.25% mycosorb, and 0.25% Mycosorb, respectively. The results in the Aflatoxins and Aflatoxins+ mycosorb treatments showed that dietary AF, significantly decreased the feed intake and weight gain as compared to the control diet (P<0.001). Treatment 2 resulted in inferior feed conversation ratio in comparison to the control diet (p<0.05). Uric acid and total protein in the second and third, and phosphorous only in the third treatment were significantly lower than the control (P<0.05). The in-vivo protein and dry matter digestibility, apparent metabolizable energy (AME) and nitrogen corrected-apparent metabolizable energy (AMEn) were not affected by the treatment (P>0.05). Aflatoxin resulted in the proventriculus enlargement, increased liver weight and AF deposition in the liver and breast muscle (P<0.05). This study clearly demonstrated that Mycosorb was effective in alleviating the adverse effects of dietary aflatoxins in broiler chickens. %U https://lst.uk.ac.ir/article_2057_32320281c0aad8e7afc839a997fd6078.pdf