I've obtained a fatty acid profile of broiler diet comprised of SFA 48 to 93%, MUFA (22 to 40%), PUFA (non determined to 10.4%. The PUFA composition is mainly n-6 and almost no value for n-3. The inclusion of corn and soybean meal was high, around 40-53% for each dietary treatment, and it has been proven in all research articles that corn and soybean are rich in PUFA. Since corn and soybean meal are the major constituent in my formulation, apart from palm oil (3%), palm kernel meal (3%), pollard (5%), and fish meal (5%), Im struggling to find the best justifications for high SFA in the ingredient used. This might be due to climate changes, genetics, environment etc but there is not reported data regarding the difference of fatty acid composition from the past study related to these feedstuffs, hence, its diffcult for me to explain in literature review. Does anyone want to share any tips to solve this issue?
Try to obtain fattyacid analyses of the different components used in the diet. That might help you to explain the obtained results.
Great suggestion. I've thought about the same idea too before this. However, due to financial constrain, I have to work with the data without spending more money on the extra analysis. Thank you for the insight.
You may collect data on FA profiles of the ingredients from the literature. This might also be helpful.
As a start I attach to files with data from our work.
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