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Record W4408015906 · doi:10.1016/j.psj.2025.104936

Ahiflower seed and its press cake as sources of nutrients for laying hens and omega-3 fatty acids in their eggs

2025· article· en· W4408015906 on OpenAlexafffund
Roseline O Ogory, Greg Cumberford, Deborah Adewole

Bibliographic record

VenuePoultry Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicAnimal Nutrition and Physiology
Canadian institutionsKensington HealthUniversity of Saskatchewan
FundersNational Cancer InstituteMitacs
KeywordsAmenEggshellYolkChemistryAnimal scienceNutrientFatty acidFecesWeanlingFeed conversion ratioFood scienceBroilerBiologyBody weightBiochemistryEndocrinologyEcology

Abstract

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240 64-week-old Lohman LSL-Lite laying hens were used to evaluate the effect of ahiflower seed (AS) and its press cake (APC) on egg yolk fatty acid profile, production performance, apparent total tract nutrient digestibility (ATTD), egg quality, eggshell mineral content, and fecal microbiota composition for 12 weeks in a completely randomized design, with 6 replicates of 5 birds in a cage. The diets included a control (CD), CD supplemented with 10 % flaxseed (FS), and CD supplemented with AS at 1, 5, and 10 % inclusion levels and APC at 5, 10, and 15 % inclusion levels. Diet did not affect eggshell Ca ( P =0.1168) and P (P =0.8212) levels, and feed conversion ratio ( P= 0.136), but the 10 % FS reduced body weight gain ( P= 0.044), hen day egg production ( P = 0.000) and feed intake ( P <.0001) compared to other treatments. The yolk lightness L* was reduced ( P =0.030) by 5 % APC compared to 10 % APC, redness a* was reduced ( P = 0.002) by 10 % FS and 15 %APC compared to 10 %APC, CD, and 1 % AS. The 10 % FS and 15 %APC also reduced ( P <0.001) yellowness *b compared to 1 %AS and 5 %APC. Apparent metabolizable energy (AME) and nitrogen-corrected apparent metabolizable energy (AME n ) increased ( P <0.001) in 10 %FS and all AS and APC levels compared to CD. Compared to CD (87 %), ATTD of energy was increased ( P <0.001) in hens fed 10 %FS (93 %), 1 %AS (93 %), and 15 %APC (92 %). However, 10 %FS (78.7 %) and 1 %AS (81.7 %) had higher ( P=0.011 ) ATTD of P than 10 %APC (64.6 %). Similarly, ATTD of Ca was reduced ( P< 0.001) in hens fed 10 %APC compared to CD and 10 %AS. Compared to other treatments, total n-3 and stearidonic acids were increased ( P< 0.001) by 10 %FS and 10 %AS, respectively, and the total n-6 FAs and linoleic acid were highest ( P =0.001) in 15 %APC. Both 10 %AS and 10 %FS increased ( P< 0.001) eicosapentaenoic, docosahexaenoic, and alpha-linolenic acid, compared to CD. The n-6/n-3 ratio was reduced ( P< 0.001) by 10 %FS and 10 %AS compared to APC and CD. Dietary treatments modulated fecal microbiota differently, but notably, Lactobacillus was more abundant when hens were fed 5 %AS compared to other treatments. In conclusion, the dietary supplementation of 10 %AS increased n3-FAs deposition in eggs similar to 10 %FS. However, 10 %FS reduced production performance. All levels of AS and APC increased diet metabolizable energy with no negative effect on production performance.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.576
Threshold uncertainty score0.141

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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