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Dietary treatments consisted of corn-soybean meal based basal diet and the basal diet supplemented with blend of OAs and MCFAs at 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 g, and 1 g per kg of feed. In the current study, during the whole experimental period, the inclusion of the blend of OAs and MCFAs in the basal diet linearly improved (p &lt; 0.05) body weight gain (BWG), feed conversion ratio (FCR), and dry matter digestibility. The increasing inclusion of the blend of OA and MCFA levels in the diets linearly decreased (p = 0.002) feed intake during d 1 to 7. Broilers fed diets containing different levels of the blend of OAs and MCFAs showed a linear increase (p = 0.006) in Lactobacillus concentrations and decrease (p = 0.014) in ammonia (NH3) at the end of the experiment. However, the blend of OAs and MCFAs did not affect carcass quality, E. coli, and Salmonella counts, as well as hydrogen sulfide and total mercaptans gas emission (p &gt; 0.05). In conclusion, the blend of OA and MCFA supplementation positively influenced growth performance, DM digestibility, excreta Lactobacillus counts, as well as NH3 gas emission in broiler chickens.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ani10030416","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,3]],"date-time":"2020-03-03T13:06:23Z","timestamp":1583240783000},"page":"416","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":67,"title":["Protected Organic Acids Improved Growth Performance, Nutrient Digestibility, and Decreased Gas Emission in Broilers"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Dinh Hai","family":"Nguyen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal Resource and Science, Dankook University, Cheonan-si, Chungnam, 31116, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"In Ho","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal Resource and Science, Dankook University, Cheonan-si, Chungnam, 31116, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"574","article-title":"Growth performance and immune status of broilers fed graded levels of albizia lebbeck seeds","volume":"46","author":"Chand","year":"2014","journal-title":"Pak. 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