Samuel Rochell

Woody breast (WB) and white striping (WS) in broiler breast meat are emerging issues in the poultry industry worldwide. These conditions are associated with high breast yielding, heavy broilers, and they have negative quality impacts and major economic implications. Nutritional strategies have been studied by researchers in efforts to reduce the prevalence of WB in broilers, without negative impac ...

An experiment was conducted to assess the potential for guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) to spare dietary energy and influence muscle myopathies when included in broiler diets. A total of 1,056 male Ross 708 broiler chicks were randomly assigned to 48 floor pens with 22 chicks per pen. Broilers were fed one of four experimental diets and reared to 50 days of age. Dietary treatments consisted of a contro ...

Introduction. The indigestible soy galactooligosaccharides (GOS) stachyose and raffinose are considered anti-nutritional factors in poultry because they decrease the metabolizable energy of soy protein (Leske et al., 1993) and decrease performance (Jiang et al., 2006). The objective was to investigate if there was a dose-response effect of increasing levels of the soy GOS raffinose and stachyose i ...