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Feeding meat-chicken with reduced crude protein (CP) diets commonly reduces N release in the environment. However, this is often associated with poor performance and a heightened body fat content due to a high energy-to-protein ratio. Reducing feed CP content affects all amino acids (AA), but the most limiting essential AA (EAA) are commonly considered during feed formulation. It was realised that ...

I. INTRODUCTIONThe most important cost component of broiler feed relates to energy, as this may account for up to 75% of feed costs (van der Klis & Kwakernaak, 2008). Therefore, more accurate evaluation of feed energy in broiler production is imperative for environmental and financial reasons. The metabolisable energy (ME) system is currently the preferred measure for determining energy utilis ...