Replacement of Synthetic Choline in Poultry Diet - The Phytogenic Way

Dear Sir, Your reaseach & case study will bring the revolution in Poultry feed Industry.To achieve the same you & your team has to take much more effort to convey the same upto feed manufactureres. This study will promote the poultry feed producers to shift from artificial Choline Chloride to Natural Choline chloride. My best wishes for your further study on matter & hope your results will be applied on field level everywere soon. Thanks & regards, Dr Jaydip Mulik(M.V.Sc.DCT)

Dear Sir, Thanks for publishing very nice article for future generation of natural way to poultry feeding Samir Patel Biotech Group Anand Gujarat

Material wise is a good article. As mention in their research, to replace synthetic choline with phytogenic product (Natchol#) in broiler diet. Choline, a lipotropic factor is commonly supplemented in poultry feed as choline chloride. Today choline is must for birds to convert the energy into fatty acids require more methyl group. Small quantity of choline is synthesizes by liver and remaining supp- lemented as a synthetic choline to bridge the gap. Methyl group donor feed ingredients play an important role in prevention and man- agement of fatty liver syndrome.Choline is important methyl group donor but it has to be converted in to betaine before it can donate methyl group. The up take and convertion of choline is adversely affected due to gut infection, mal absorption, mit- ochondrial in sufficiency and mycotoxin in the ration. So phytogenic product will be used due to the limitation of synthetic choline, which are, being a quaternary base, poor absorption in G.I.,Tract, converted into methyl amine which is toxic, interacts with ionophores and vitamins,corrosive nature due to hygroscopy. Phytogenic (Natchol) containing citrulus colocynthis as a major component, will be used in experiment to estimate liver fat percent as well as to study gross and histo- pathological lessions. The diet with synthetic choline have liver fat 6.12[percent] as comp- ared to phytogenic 5.815 and also better FCR. Citrulus is reported to increase the fat mobilization from liver, when the liver is challanged by CC14 and treated with C. This will be the reason for lower fat [percent]age in phytogenic and no histopathological lession in liver which is the base of this study. This is the fact that more study require to establish the result for the repalacement synthatic choline through phytogenic products.Over all it is a good article.