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Amino acids in poultry nutrition
Adequate provision of dietary amino acids is required to maintain normal immunocompetence and protection of the host from some diseases in all species (Beski et al. 2015). Therefore, the development of immune function in poultry will be promoted if they receive sufficient amino acids in their diets. The essential amino acids for poultry are arginine, glycine, histidine, leucine, isoleucine, lysine, methionine, cystine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine. Out of these, the ones critical in practical diets are arginine, lysine, methionine, cystine and tryptophan.
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Duarte Neves (Zinpro) explains how amino-acid complexed mineral supplementation to broiler breeders can positively impact eggshell quality and translucency, in this Engormix interview during IPPE 2024 in Atlanta, USA....
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Martin Steffan, Global Product Manager Biolys® at Evonik, explains the different ways in which an innovative lysine source contributes to lowering the ecological footprint in animal nutrition
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Dr. Dirk Hoehler, SVP Essential Nutrition at Evonik, provides more details on Evonik’s backward integration of their DL-Methionine plant and their global methionine production network...
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Looking back to the year 2023, the overall API market collapsed. The scarring effect left by the pandemic is hard to fade away completely; the global economy is facing downward pressure, the domestic livestock industry is in a downturn, and the prices of veterinary APIs continue to bottom out, hitting record lows. As the China Veterinary Medicine and Feed Trading Centre (CVMFTC) monitored, the VPi index for four weeks in January was 63.95, 63.41, 63.30 and 63.23. respectively....
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I. INTRODUCTION In the 1990s, researchers from the American Soybean Association (ASA) showed that soybean meal with similar proximate analysis can perform very differently in poultry and swine feeding. Subsequently, Creswell and Swick (2008) carried out feeding trials, AME and digestible amino acid analysis of 4 soybean meals. They found that there was a large difference between the soybean meals in BWG and FCR from the broiler feeding trials as well as in AME and digestible lysine....
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I. INTRODUCTION The nutritional strategy of reducing dietary crude protein (CP) in broiler diets to improve the sustainability of poultry production has been widely reviewed in the recent years (Hilliar and Swick, 2019; Selle et al., 2020). This strategy has proven benefits on global warming potential (GWP; Kebreab et al., 2016; Cappelaere et al., 2021) and litter quality (van Harn et al., 2018). In terms of growth performance, there is still a controversy on the ability of...
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I. INTRODUCTION The term ‘amino acid imbalances’ was probably originated by Elvehjem and Krehl (1955) and the topic was addressed by Harper and Rogers (1965). Their conclusion was that imbalances retard growth by altering the normal pathways of amino acid metabolism. Thus, while the relevance of amino acid imbalances to efficient chicken-meat production is recognised, a precise definition has yet to be developed (Kurpad, 2018). Antagonisms between arginine and lysine...
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I. BACKGROUND The scale of the Australian chicken-meat industry has increased at an extraordinarily rapid rate so that now chicken-meat is clearly the first preference of consumers in comparison to pork, beef and lamb. In 1990/91, the Australian population was 17.2 million with a per capita chicken-meat consumption of 23.9 kg; however, this increased by 61.0% to 27.7 million people and consumption increased by 100% to 47.8 kg over the 30 years to 2020/21. As a direct consequence, the...
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I WANT TO KNOW HOW MUCH CRUDE PROTEIN WE CAN TAKE FROM SUPPLEMENTAL AMINO ACIDS OF THE TOTAL CRUDE PROTEIN OF THE DIET. E.G., IF THE CP OF DIET IS 22%, THEN WHAT PERCENTAGE OF IT MAXIMUM SHOULD COME FROM CRYSTALLINE AMINO ACIDS. best regards anjumgojra@yahoo.com ...
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I. INTRODUCTION Broiler diets are formulated on the basis of ideal protein ratios (IPR) where selected amino acid requirements are expressed relative to lysine (100). However, IPR have been developed over decades for standard diets rather than diets with reduced-CP. This has led to the possibility that reduced-CP diets require modified IPR. For this reason, two sets of ratios were evaluated in diets with 210 and 180 g/kg CP in a 2 × 2 factorial design. II....
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DL-Methionine (DL-Met, 99%) and liquid DL-2-hydroxy-4-methylthio butanoic acid (methionine hydroxy analogue-free acid, MHA-FA, 88%) are often used in commercial poultry feeds to meet the requirements for Methionine+Cysteine (M+C). However, differences in chemical properties and absorption decrease the relative bioavailability value (RBV) of MHAFA, which corresponds to 65% of DL-Met for performance . This study aimed to confirm that MHA-FA can be replaced with DL-Met at a...
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ABSTRACT Enteric infections such as coccidiosis and necrotic enteritis in broilers may have a large influence on the endogenous amino acids (eAA) losses within the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). Although not much is known on this topic, more information is available on the effects of these diseases on the apparent ileal digestibility (AID) of amino acids. There are many factors that must be considered when attempting to determine the intestinal flow of eAA, including age of the...
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I. Introduction Grains are the major energy sources in broiler diets. However, they also supply about 40% of the total dietary protein and contribute significantly to the provision of some indispensable amino acids (IAA; Szczurek et al., 2020). Despite the low protein content in maize, owing to its higher inclusion levels (50-70%) it may contribute approximately up to one third of the protein requirement of broilers. The inclusion of barley in poultry diets remains limited because of...
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I. INTRODUCTION Broiler breeders require adequate levels of nutrients to reach their genetic potential in terms of productive and reproductive performance, and to transfer essential nutrients from eggs to embryo for the development of chicks (Rajashree et al., 2014). It is known that oxidative stress impairs a breeder’s performance (particularly related to aging) and embryo development. This suggests that enhanced antioxidant defenses, via effective dietary...
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APIs MARKET
The price index of veterinary APIs monitored by China Veterinary Drugs and Feed Trading Centre for four weeks this month was 64.80-65.07-64.90-64.66, indicating that the market is generally stable. Products such as Doxycycline hydrochloride, neomycin sulfate, tilmicosin, enrofloxacin, and florfenicol, etc, have received more attention, while other categories and products have performed stably and are still at the bottom of the market.
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INTRODUCTION In 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 match animals’ requirements for optimal performance; and minimize the excretion...
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The objective of the study was to evaluate tryptophan’s functionally essential role in regulating performance, intestinal inflammation, and disease resistance during a coccidia challenge. A total of 300 two-day-old Cobb 500 broiler chickens (54.29 ± 0.284 g body weight [BW]) were group housed (5 chickens/pen; 10 pens/treatment) in battery brooders and had ad libitum access to a basal diet and water. At 7 d of age, pens were randomly assigned to 1 of 6 levels of dietary...
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Kostas Mountzouris (Agricultural University of Athens) shares his research on modeling responses through molecular analytical data, linked to animal homeostasis, during the 11th Symposium on Gut Health in Production of Food Animals in St. Louis, USA....
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INTRODUCTION In the modern poultry production system, the first reported chick embryos injection of thiourea was done by Grossowicz in 1946 to observe the effect in hatchling and post-hatch life (1), followed by thyroxin by Balaban and Hill (2). Later, in ovo technique (IOT) was first opted for vaccination against Marek’s disease by Sharma and Burmester (3). Subsequently, the success of in ovo vaccination (IOV) has set forth a paradigm shift in the poultry industry by adapting...
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John Boney (Penn State University) offers insights and recommendations regarding the importance of pellet quality and its benefits on performance, during this Engormix interview....
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