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For more than ten years, I have been formulating commercial diets with protein levels lower than the recommended amounts, and I have still achieved desirable performance. Of course, paying attention to amino acid balance is also important.
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@Dr Kotaiah Talapaneni Thank you for this comment! This is indeed a clear dilemma and we may distinguish the aim for the two different nutritional strategies. Indeed, genetic potential of broilers is continuously improving and if diets are formulated accordingly, unbelievable performances can be achieved. A feed conversion ratio of 1.35 at 40 days is commercially achieved in some regions of the wo ...
Article published the June 4, 2025
Author details:1 Department of Animal Science and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, South Korea; 2 Kemin Animal Nutrition and Health, Asia Pacific, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.IntroductionNutrient supply to meet requirements accounts for the largest share of poultry production costs, within which protein (i.e., AA) supply makes up the second largest portion. The ...
Article published the May 20, 2025
Increased global production, and consumption of the hen egg; and the popularization of nutritional knowledge, places greater emphasis on egg quality, safety, and freshness. An understanding of the interaction between several egg quality indicators is necessary. A total of 300 freshly-laid eggs were analyzed within 24 hours of collection to investigate the phenotypic correlations between internal a ...
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Pressure on feed cost is and will remain a decisive factor for profitability and sustainability in pork and poultry production. In the backdrop of soaring inflation, other production costs have escalated. Corollary minimizing the costs associated with production has never been of greater importance. Arguably, feed formulation is a precise science that seek to compute combination of feedstuffs to m ...
Participation in Forum on March 26, 2024
Would it be reasonable to look at the possibility of improved eggshell quality due to the increased Ca retention with the feeding of low CP diets in layer chicken nutrition?
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I. INTRODUCTIONIn Australia, the cost of tallow and vegetable oil has more than doubled over the past two years (www.finvis.com), prompting broiler nutritionists to re-evaluate dietary energy content for meat-type chickens. Globally, a wide range of lipids with diverse chemical composition, are routinely included in poultry feed including soapstocks or acid oil, crude vegetable oil, hydrogenated m ...
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Connie Mou (University of Georgia) commented on humidity, air movement and dry litter in poultry houses, during IPPE 2020 in Atlanta, USA.
Article published the November 24, 2023
INTRODUCTIONIn line with the tremendous progress that has been made in meat-type duck production, digestibility and balance experiments are necessary to fill the dearth of information on the nutrient digestibility of widely used feedstuffs. Digestibility experiments for the evaluation of nutrient disappearance along the gastrointestinal tract align with the need for precise feed formulation to mat ...
Article published the October 3, 2023
1 | INTRODUCTIONDue to the impact of climatic changes and other global events such as conflict, the Covid‐19 pandemic, recession, and supply chain issues, conventional feed ingredient prices are continually increasing. The effect of these constraints is felt largely in developing countries that are coming under huge pressure to source raw materials such as corn and soybean meal (Abro et al., ...