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Article: The effect of green oak acorn (Quercus ilex) based diet on growth performance and meat fatty acid composition of broilers.(Report)
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- Asian - Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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INTRODUCTION
In North Africa, large areas of unexploited oak acorn forest have raised the interest of scientists mainly due to their large availability and their resistance to drought. The idea appeared in most Mediterranean countries to exploit them for livestock feeding as an energy source (47 to 60% starch, Kekos and Kaukios, 1985); 7 to 14.4% lipids, some unsaturated fatty acids (UFA) and for oil extraction because of similarities to olive oil (Ofcarick and Burns, 1971). Ofcarick and Burns (1971), Dodd et al. (1993), Cantos et al. (2003) and Lopes and Bernardo-Gil (2005) reported that the major fatty acids (FA) in acorns were oleic (48-63%), linoleic ...