Digestible lysine requirements of male broilers from 1 to 42 days of age reassessed
Published on:
03/21/2019
Author/s :
Henrique Scher Cemin 1, Sergio Luiz Vieira 1, Catarina Stefanello 1, Marcos Kipper 1, Liris Kindlein 2, Ariane Helmbrecht 3. / 1 Department of Animal Science, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; 2 Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; 3 Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH, Hanau-Wolfgang, Germany.
IntroductionLysine (Lys) is the second limiting amino acid (AA) in practical corn-soybean meal diets. Growth performance and proper muscle development of broiler chickens is highly dependent of an adequate dietary supply of Lys. Although all AA coded in the nucleic acid sequence are required for muscle protein synthesis, also depending on its frequency and dietary supply, Lys is the main esse...