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The potential to reduce poultry nitrogen emissions with specific uricase egg yolk feed grade antibodies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2013

W.K. KIM ,
P.H. PATTERSON ,
J.C. RODRIGUEZ-LECOMPTE  and
S.C. RICKE
W.K. KIM*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
P.H. PATTERSON
Affiliation:
Dept. of Poultry Science, The Pennsylvania State University, 213 Henning Bldg., University Park, PA 16802, USA
J.C. RODRIGUEZ-LECOMPTE
Affiliation:
Dept. of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
S.C. RICKE
Affiliation:
Center for Food Safety, Dept. of Food Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72704, USA
*
Corresponding author: kim@cc.umanitoba.ca
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Abstract

One of the environmental challenges that the poultry industry has faced is manure utilisation and/or disposal. Poultry manure and its nitrogenous compounds can be a potential pollutant causing eutrophication, nitrate or nitrite contamination of water, ammonia volatilisation, and acid deposition in the air. Therefore, reducing nitrogen excretion and emissions in poultry manure is important to maintain a clean environment. Proper nutrition is an important first step to optimise performance and growth in animals as well as to reduce the negative impacts on the environment. Amino acids are components of protein nutrition that greatly influence animal growth. However, excess or insufficient amino acid supplementation in diets increases nitrogen excretion and emissions. One way to reduce this is to prevent uricase activity in the microflora in poultry manure. Egg yolk antibodies are economic alternatives for administering in feed to poultry. Supplementation of feed grade antibodies into poultry diets can be a potential approach to minimise bacterial uricase activity and reduce ammonia emissions from poultry manure. In order to use this dietary strategy effectively, a well-balanced feed formulation and a more practical way of delivering the antibodies in feeds remains to be developed.

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IgYammoniauricasefeedegg yolk
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 69 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 45 - 56
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Copyright © World's Poultry Science Association 2013

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