The Effect of Feeding Hens a Peanut Skin-Containing Diet on Hen Performance, and Shell Egg Quality and Lipid Chemistry

Ondulla Toomer,Rebecca Wysocky,Kenneth Anderson,Ramon Malheiros,Vera Moraes,Thien Vu

doi:10.3390/agriculture11090894

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Peanut skins are a considerable waste product with little current economic value or use. We aimed to determine the dietary effects of peanut skins on layer production performance and egg quality and chemistry of the eggs produced. Two hundred commercial hens were randomly assigned to four treatments (five replicates) and fed ad libitum for 8 weeks: conventional control diet, diet containing 24% high-oleic peanut (HOPN), diet containing 3% peanut skin (PN Skin), and a diet with 2.5% oleic acid (OA). Hens fed the HOPN diet had significantly reduced body weights relative to the control and PN Skin treatments, producing fewer total eggs over the 8-week experimental period. Eggs weights were similar between the control and PN Skin treatments at weeks 2 and 4, while eggs from the PN Skin treatment group were heavier than other treatments at weeks 6 and 8 of the experiment. Eggs produced from the HOPN treatment had reduced saturated fatty acid (FA) content in comparison to the other treatment groups, while similar between PN Skin and control eggs at week 8 of the experiment. This study suggests that PN skins may be a suitable alternative layer feed ingredient.

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Feed ingredients used to make dietary rations for food production animals account for approximately 60–70% of the total production cost annually [1]
The high-oleic peanut (HOPN) dietary treatment had the highest level of oleic fatty acid content relative to the other treatment groups, while the control, peanut skin (PN Skin), and oleic acid (OA) dietary treatment groups had the highest levels of linoleic fatty acid content relative to the HOPN dietary treatment (Table 2)
Numerous feeding trials have demonstrated that the feedstock rations rich in carotenoids and/or unsaturated fatty acids are transferred to the eggs [10,17]

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Feed ingredients used to make dietary rations for food production animals account for approximately 60–70% of the total production cost annually [1]. Peanut skins, which are an abundant low-value waste by-product of the peanut industry, contain residual nutrients that may serve as an energy-rich, antioxidant-rich, affordable feed additive or ingredient for production animals. Dairy and beef cattle feeding trials have shown that peanut skin dietary inclusion rates greater than 8–16% inhibits protein digestion and absorption due to the high content of tannin and procyanidin [4,5]. Reduction in the tannin and procyanidin content in peanut skins by ammoniation did not improve protein digestibility, nitrogen retention, or production performance in steers [6]. In this study, we aimed to determine the effect of peanut skins as a feed ingredient on the production performance of layers

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