Article published the October 3, 2023
Introduction The concept of maintenance has been defined as the state of balance between the intake of nutrients and their inevitable losses (Siqueira et al., 2011; Silva et al., 2014; Soares et al., 2019). Th...
Article published the August 18, 2023
DL-Methionine (DL-Met, 99%) and liquid DL-2-hydroxy-4-methylthio butanoic acid (methionine hydroxy analogue-free acid, MHA-FA, 88%) are often used in commercial poultry feeds to meet the requirements for Methi...
Article published the August 17, 2023
Nutritionists have access to various ingredients that fulfill methionine (Met) requirements of broilers. Amino acids (AA), such as DL-methionine, are nearly 100% bioavailable while methionine hydroxy analogs a...
Article published the August 17, 2023
Optimal soybean (SB) processing conditions is essential to ensure that antinutritional factors as trypsin inhibitors are deactivated while maintaining protein solubility and dispersibility. Heat processing is ...
Article published the March 15, 2023
There is no general consensus about a method to assess the bioavailability of rumen-protected methionine (RPM). Measuring methionine (MET) concentrations in blood can be misleading because of differences in th...
Article published the December 22, 2022
1 INTRODUCTION During the last decades, the productivity of laying hens has improved significantly, with higher number of eggs produced over the laying cycle and higher efficiency to utilize feed nutrients. Th...