Poultry feed cost savings with alternative feed ingredients
Optimizing Dietary Nutrient Density for Improved Economic Returns
Published:January 18, 2024
Summary
I. INTRODUCTION Nutrient requirements are established by means of dose-response studies. Data is subjected to appropriate regression analysis and the level needed to maximise a given response (body weight gain, feed efficiency, carcass yield, etc.,) is defined as ‘requirement’. The estimates are compiled as ‘tables of nutrient requirement’ e.g., NRC, CVB, Brazilian Tables...
This is certainly not the case in Argentina where the cheapest feed cost per balanced calorie tends to be at the highest range of commonly used feed energies. And as a consequence, the poultry industry is going towards grow to higher broiler weights to maximize the return over feed costs.