Sharma, Nishchal

Swick, Robert A

Dunlop, Mark

Wu, Shubiao

Choct, Mingan

2016

Meat chickens fed a high protein diet produce increased levels of putrefactive metabolites in the caeca such as ammonia, amines, phenols, indoles, skatole, cresol and branched chain fatty acids (reviewed by Qaisrani et al., 2015). Some of these metabolites are toxic and odorous (Mackie et al., 1998). A low protein diet formulated to provide all the required amino acids without excesses may reduce putrefaction and therefore the production of toxic and odorous metabolites in the hindgut and litter. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of a low protein diet on odorous metabolites emitted from litter.

Proceedings of the Australian Poultry Science Symposium, v.27, p. 46-46

1034-6260

1034-3466

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19121

en

University of Sydney

Feeding Low Protein Diets to Meat Chickens: Effects on Emissions of Toxic and Odorous Metabolites

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