A comparison of two methods for determining titanium dioxide marker content in broiler digestibility studies

Morgan, N.K., Scholey, D.V. ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-5989 and Burton, E.J. ORCID: 0000-0003-2784-6922, 2014. A comparison of two methods for determining titanium dioxide marker content in broiler digestibility studies. animal, 8 (4), pp. 529-533. ISSN 1751-7311

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Abstract

The use of inert markers in broiler diets eliminates the need to quantitatively evaluate feed intake and excreta output to determine diet digestibility, and enables nutrient uptake at specific points along the gastrointestinal tract to be examined. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is commonly used for this purpose and measured using a UV spectrophotometric assay. Two experiments were conducted to observe whether an inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrophotometer (ICP-OES) assay is able to replace the UV-spectroscopy assay for rapid analysis of TiO2 in broiler feed and ileal digesta samples. In the first experiment, TiO2 was added at 5g/kg to 19 broiler diets. Ross 308, male broilers (n=452) fed these diets were involved in a series of digestion studies to determine ileal digesta recovery of TiO2. In the second experiment, defined amounts of TiO2 were added to ileal digesta samples from Ross 308, male broilers (n=176) and TiO2 recoveries were determined.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	animal
Creators:	Morgan, N.K., Scholey, D.V. and Burton, E.J.
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:	Cambridge
Date:	2014
Volume:	8
Number:	4
ISSN:	1751-7311
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1017/S1751731114000068 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
Record created by:	EPrints Services
Date Added:	09 Oct 2015 10:56
Last Modified:	09 Jun 2017 13:45
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/20323

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