• 한국가금학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.255-258
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• 2002

본 연구는 성장중인 닭에 있어서 맹장내 혐기성 미생물수와 맹장의 길이와의 관계를 구명하기 위해서 실시되었다. 5주령의 160수의 닭을 80수씩 분리하여 케이지내 사육 (대조구)및 염소 방목장내 염소와 같이 사육 (처리구)의 2처리로 구분하여 실시하였으며, 본 시험기간동안의 사료는 닭의 성장단계에 적합한 시판의 사료를 기초사료로 활용하였다. 시험기간 (5∼8주형)까지의 증체량은 8주령 에서는 대조구가 처리구보다 유의하게 놀았으며(P<0.05), 12주령에서는 처리구가 대조구보다도 유의하게 높았다(p<0.05). 맹장의 길이는 6, 9, 10 및 11주령에 처리구가 대조구보다 유의하게 길었다 (P<0.05). 맹장내 총 혐기성미생물수도 6, 9, 10 빛 11주령에 처리구가 대조구보다 유의하게 많았다(P<0.05). 대조구 및 처리구 함께 맹장의 길이와 증체량간에는 r= 0.816의 상관관계가 인정되었다. 맹장의 길이와 맹장내 혐기성 미생물 수는 대조구 및 처리구 함께 r=0.95이상의 높은 상관 관계가 인정되었다(P<0.01). 결론적으로 성장중인 닭에 있어서 섬유소 함량이 높은 염소의 배설물 섭취 등의 영향에 따른 맹장내 혐기성 미생물 수의 증가가 맹장의 길이 증가에 관계되어진다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.556-562
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• 2007

A total of 126 crossbred weanling pigs (average body weight of $6.3{\pm}0.3$ kg) were used to investigate the effect of chito-oligosaccharide (COS) on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, pH of gastro-intestinal tract (GI), intestinal and fecal microflora of young piglets. Pigs were allocated to three dietary treatments based on body weight and gender in a single factorial arrangement. Treatments were control (No COS), T1 (0.2% COS during starter (6-13 kg) and 0.1% COS during grower (13-30 kg) phases, and T2 (0.4% COS during starter (6-13 kg) and 0.3% COS during grower (13-30 kg) phases, respectively. Each treatment had 3 replicates and 14 pigs were raised in each pen. COS is a low molecular weight water-soluble chitosan that can be obtained from chitin of the crab shell after deacetylation with concentrated sodium hydroxide at high temperature and then further decomposition by chitosanase enzyme in the presence of ascorbic acid. For the starter and grower periods, there were no significant differences (p>0.05) in average daily gain (ADG) and feed to gain ratio among treatments. However, during the overall period (6-30 kg), T2 showed better (p<0.05) feed to gain ratio than other treatments. A digestibility study was conducted at the end of grower phase which showed improvement (p<0.05) in DM and crude fat digestibility in T2 over the control. At 25 kg body weight, 6 pigs per treatment (2 per replicate) were sacrificed to determine the effect of diets on pH and microbial count at different sections of the GI tract. The pH of the cecal contents in pigs fed 0.1% COS was higher (p<0.05) than in the other treatments. Total anaerobic bacterial number increased from cecum to rectum in all treatments. The weekly total bacterial counts showed higher (p<0.05) in feces of pigs fed COS than that of untreated pigs at the $8^{th}$ week. The number of fecal E. coli in untreated pigs at $4^{th}$ wk was 7.35 log CFU/g compared to 6.71 and 6.54 log CFU/g in 0.1 and 0.3% COS-treated pigs, respectively. Similarly, at $8^{th}$ wk, fecal clostridium spp. were lower in pigs fed 0.3% COS (5.43 log CFU/g) than in untreated pigs (6.26 log CFU/g). In conclusion, these results indicated that chito-oligosaccharide could improve feed efficiency in young pigs and inhibited the growth of harmful bacteria.