Glycerine: an alternative energy source for poultry

SUMMARYFeed industrialists have always been in search of alternative, highly nutritive and low-cost feed ingredients. Being energy enriched entity, crude glycerine, a co-product of biodiesel industry, has become a focus point for feed formulators. Day by day increasing trend of using this peculiar f...

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Published inWorld's poultry science journal Vol. 79; no. 3; pp. 467 - 484
Main Authors Ghayas, Abdul, Hussain, Jibran, Ahmad, Shakeel, Ishaq, Hafiz Muhammad, Kamran, Zahid, Yousaf, Muhammad, Ahmad, Sohail, Ishaq, Waqas, Munir, Shahzad, Ahmed, Irfan, Ahmad, Hafiz Ishfaq
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Taylor & Francis Ltd 03.07.2023
Subjects
Alternative energy sources
Biodiesel fuels
Biofuels
Diet
Hatching
Poultry
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Summary:SUMMARYFeed industrialists have always been in search of alternative, highly nutritive and low-cost feed ingredients. Being energy enriched entity, crude glycerine, a co-product of biodiesel industry, has become a focus point for feed formulators. Day by day increasing trend of using this peculiar feedstuff is a proof for its potential to be used in animal diets. Variability in its energy content depending upon its source and purity is major challenge for researchers to summarise and standardise its usage in poultry diets. Although, it exerts beneficial effects up to certain level in broiler, layer and quail diets but the parameters related to egg quality and hatching traits may get deteriorated. Therefore, there is dire need to further explore the hidden truth behind this phenomenon. This manuscript encompasses the importance of glycerine for poultry diets and its effect on productive and reproductive performance of the birds.
ISSN:0043-9339
1743-4777
DOI:10.1080/00439339.2023.2225796