Journal of Animal Science, Vol 75, Issue 11 2986-2993, Copyright © 1997 by American Society of Animal Science

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Utilization of phytate and nonphytate phosphorus in chicks as affected by source and amount of vitamin D3

R. R. Biehl and D. H. Baker
Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA.

Commercial and laboratory-strain crossbred chicks responded (P < .01) markedly to 1alpha-hydroxycholecalciferol (1alpha-OH D3) during the 2nd and 3rd wk of life. Bone-ash responses exceeded 50% when this compound was added at 20 microg/kg to phosphorus (P)-deficient corn-soybean meal diets containing surfeit levels (25 microg/kg) of cholecalciferol (D3). Phosphorus excretion was decreased (P < .01) and, thus, retention was increased (P < .01) when 1alpha-OH D3 was supplemented. A P-deficient (.10% P) casein-amino acid purified diet, devoid of D3, was used to determine whether 15 microg/kg of D3 was sufficient to facilitate optimal absorption of the nonphytate P contained in this diet. Bone ash responded to .075% P addition (KH2PO4), and chicks fed diets with .175% nonphytate P exhibited further bone-ash responses to 15 microg/kg of D3 or 10 microg/kg 1alpha-OH D3. Higher levels of either of these D3 compounds did not produce additional responses. This suggested that 15 to 25 microg/kg of D3 in a P-deficient corn-soybean meal diet (.28% phytate P and .14% nonphytate P) is more than adequate to facilitate optimal absorption of the nonphytate P present in the diet. A P-deficient casein-dextrose diet (.13% nonphytate P and 15 microg/kg D3) was fed in the final chick assay, and chicks fed this diet did not show bone ash responses to 1alpha-OH D3 or to microbial-derived phytase (1,470 units/kg). Thus, with P-deficient corn-soybean meal diets containing at least 15 microg D3/kg, 1alpha-OH D3 supplementation markedly increased weight gain and bone ash because it increased the utilization of phytate P.

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