Medardo Antonio Díaz Céspedes

IntroductionIt is assumed that net energy (NE) represents the most accurate way to value a feed for productive purposes (Barzegar et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2017; Wu et al., 2019). This explains the variations in the metabolic utilization of metabolizable energy (ME) from nutrients and ingredients (Noblet, 2015), explains the loss of energy as heat (Swick et al., 2013), and allows for more accurate ...