Effect dietary threonine and tryptophan on performance, blood parameters and mortality in broiler chickens with cold-induced ascites

Ascites is a metabolic disease that causes the economic losses in broiler industry. This study was performed to investigate the effect of threonine and tryptophan on performance, meat quality and quantity, mortality, some enzymes, thyroid hormones, some blood indices and heart parameters of broiler chickens. Three hundred one-day-old female chicks (Ross 308) were used in a completely randomized design with four treatments of control (without amino acids) and 140% tryptophan, 130% threonine and combination of both amino acids. Each treatment included the five replicates and 15 birds per each replicate. consumption of tryptophan and threonine caused the improvement of performance, carcass weight and breast meat (P0.05). CONLUSIONS: taken together, tryptophan and threonine decreases the feed consumption and feed conversion ratio and consequently decrease the ascites mortality in broiler chickens.