ADSA STUDENT AFFILIATE DIVISION Dairy Foods Undergraduate Paper Presentations

sults showed that birds supplemented with 1.5%SO and 3%SO had significantly (P<0.05) higher levels of n-3 (25.27, 50.62 mg/100g) than control group (5.65 mg/100g) into breasts. With regard to leg/thigh the higher incorporations of EPA and DHA were obtained with 1.5%SO (20.68,24.64 mg/100g) and 3%SO (49.17,43.37). The n-6/n-3 ratios obtained in each treatment were: breast 16.4, 4.7, 3.1, 1.8 and for leg/thigh 16.6, 9.6, 5.4, 2.1. There were not changes induced by the sex (P>0.05). Under conditions of the present study, it is concluded that SO could be used to increase the EPA and DHA content in tissue lipids of poultry, that there is higher incorporation of FA into leg/thigh than in the breast and, than the sex no affect the deposition of FA in the muscle of the birds.