Atia,, A., Hegazy, R. (2003). ELECTROPHORETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CARCASS PROTEIN OF BROILERS FED ON SUGAR CANE BAGASSE. Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering, 28(1), 663-677. doi: 10.21608/jssae.2003.243975
A. I. Atia,; R. A. Hegazy. "ELECTROPHORETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CARCASS PROTEIN OF BROILERS FED ON SUGAR CANE BAGASSE". Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering, 28, 1, 2003, 663-677. doi: 10.21608/jssae.2003.243975
Atia,, A., Hegazy, R. (2003). 'ELECTROPHORETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CARCASS PROTEIN OF BROILERS FED ON SUGAR CANE BAGASSE', Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering, 28(1), pp. 663-677. doi: 10.21608/jssae.2003.243975
Atia,, A., Hegazy, R. ELECTROPHORETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CARCASS PROTEIN OF BROILERS FED ON SUGAR CANE BAGASSE. Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering, 2003; 28(1): 663-677. doi: 10.21608/jssae.2003.243975
ELECTROPHORETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CARCASS PROTEIN OF BROILERS FED ON SUGAR CANE BAGASSE
National Center for Radiation Research and Technology, Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt.
Abstract
The present study was performed on 50 chicks of 14 days old, classified equally into 5 groups to study the electrophoretic pattern of the protein bands of Pectoralis major muscle after feeding on diets containing untreated or treated sugar cane bagasse for 4 weeks. The sugar cane bagasse and wheat germ were mixed at 4:1 w/w (untreated bagasse) only or with rumen liquor at 1:4 (w/v) and incubated at 39°C and pH 6.5 for 72 hrs., the mixture was irradiated at 2 M rad of gamma irradiation (treated bagasse) and then added by 10 and 20% to the original chicks diet. In comparison with the control, the untreated bagasse 10% group showed almost no change in the qualitative protein bands, to the contrary untreated bagasse 20% group was the worst treatment having apparent reduction in fibrillar proteins. The treated bagasse 10% group has proved to be the best of the 5 groups including the control one with apparent increase in the protein bands responsible for muscle strength, while the treated bagasse 20% group has reduced the feeding quality but to a less extent than the untreated bagasse 20% group. The results denoted that the chicks can well tolerate the substitution of their diets with 8% treated bagasse with no affection on the quality of carcass proteins with consequent saving of 8% of the costs and getting rid of unsuitable by-product. It is also pointed the beneficial effect of using rumen liquor after incubation and sterilization by y-irradiation as it renders the bagasse more digestible and increase the organic nitrogenous compounds in the diet.