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Glycine supplementation in laying hens diets. D. Akinde (Fusion Biosystems)

Published: July 7, 2014
Dr. Olayinka Akinde, enterprise nutritionist and feed additive specialist from Fusion Biosystems, Germany speaks about his company and about his presentation at the European Poultry Conference 2014.
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Dr. David O. Akinde
Fusion Biosystems
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Dr.H. Sodhi
18 de agosto de 2014
no doubt the research is for betterment of industry.but i dont"t get how glycine can impact on ca:p ratio.& futher reduction in lysine & nethionine . dear akinde will you improve me in this matter. regards dr h sodhi india.
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Dr. David O. Akinde
Fusion Biosystems
19 de agosto de 2014

Thanks for your contribution.

As a preamble, glycine is more than protein synthesis. This amino acid is involved in many physiological systems cutting across gut and immune health, digestive physiology, bone and cartilage formation, blood synthesis, bile accretion. Collagen is used alongside P and Ca in bone matrixes. While the significance of glycine is that it constitutes about 30% of native amino N matter in collagen. There is ample prove also that DNA/RNA synthesis demand glycine availability. Glycine of course is a precursor of serine and indirectly a precursor of cysteine. Glycine affects cellular methionine turnover, if one considers the folate remethylation pathway. Threonine catabolism also yield glycine, so that it has a critical role in overall protein an amino acid homeostasis. But for space/brevity one can go on and on. If you have these multiple involvements the likelihood (which informed our hypothesis) is that dietary glycine supplementation will benefit not only efficiency of utilisation of key nutrients but also economic performance at whole animal level. Therefore in our study we placed a matrix demand on the nutrients you stated, and the result was indeed amazing.

In fact we think this amino acid is a dietary essential amino acid to attain optimum poultry performance, contrary to old school amino acid categorization.

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Dr.H. Sodhi
19 de agosto de 2014

Thanks for your sincere and prompt valuable response.

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Usevalad Lisouski
22 de abril de 2019
Dear Dr. Akinde, how are researches of glycine role in laying hens diet going? any updates? new data? Thank you in advance for your response.
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Dr. Bahman H. Ali
18 de julio de 2019

Does glycine affect the eggshell color in brown egg layers?

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John Wills, PhD
6 de abril de 2021

When using Ideal Protein for layers with the amino acids, lysine, methionine, value, the so one, arginine, and tryptophan then glycine must be used to equal glycine in a 16 % crude protein diet to provide enough nitrogen for non essential amino acids.

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George Entz
7 de abril de 2021
What would be the recommended ratio glycine/Lysine in laying chickens and broilers?
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John Wills, PhD
7 de abril de 2021
George Entz I am using a Total glycine to dig lysine that would be when the dig lysine is .87 to .88
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George Entz
7 de abril de 2021
John Wills, PhD , I'm a little confused, is your Total glycine level 0.87 -0.88% in the diet or is the ratio of Glycine to Lysine 0.87? Thank-you in advance.
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John Wills, PhD
8 de abril de 2021
This is the T glycine /dig Lysine ratio
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George Entz
6 de julio de 2021
John Wills, PhD, I can't acquire l-glycine in Canada, so how much glycine will 1g of threonine or choline spare?
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