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Title: Impacts of reduced-crude protein diets on key parameters in male broiler chickens offered maize-based diets
Contributor(s): Chrystal, Peter V (author); Moss, Amy F  (author)orcid ; Khoddami, Ali (author); Naranjo, Victor D (author); Selle, Peter H (author); Liu, Sonia Yun (author)
Publication Date: 2020-01
Early Online Version: 2019-12-30
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.3382/ps/pez573
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29209
Abstract: A total of 294 male, off-sex Ross 308 chickens were offered 7 dietary treatments with crude protein (CP) contents of 210, 195, 180, and 165 g/kg. One of the four 165 g/kg diet was consistent with the higher protein diets and 3 were modified to investigate the effects of increased methionine levels, pre-pellet inclusion of whole maize, and whey protein concentrate in reduced-CP broiler diets. There were 7 replicate cages, 6 birds per cage, from 14 to 35 D post-hatch. The average feed conversion ratio (FCR) of birds offered 210, 195, 180 g/kg CP diets was 1.555 which was superior (P < 0.05) to the 1.608 FCR of their 165 g/kg counterparts. The transition from 210 to 165 g/kg (diet 4) CP diets linearly increased (P < 0.001) relative fat-pad weights from 8.64 to 14.62 g/kg. The same transition linearly increased jejunal and ileal starch digestibility coefficients (P < 0.001), metabolizable to gross energy ratios (ME:GE) ratios (P < 0.001) and nitrogen (N)-corrected apparent metabolizable energy (AMEn) (P = 0.001) but did not influence N retention. Starch:protein disappearance rate ratios increased linearly (P < 0.001) from 2.68 to 3.82 in the jejunum and from 1.76 to 2.94 in the ileum following dietary CP reductions. Ileal disappearance rate ratios were quadratically related to FCR (r = 0.486; P < 0.005) and linearly related to relative fat-pad weights (r = 0.663; P < 0.001) where both parameters were disadvantaged by widening ratios. The transition from 210 to 165 g/kg crude protein diets linearly increased the average digestibility coefficient of 17 amino acids from 0.459 to 0.594 in jejunum and from 0.744 to 0.790 in the ileum. The present study demonstrates that dietary CP can be reduced from 210 to 180 g/kg without negatively influencing broiler performance but the further reduction to 165 g/kg compromised FCR. However, the three modifications to the 165 g/kg CP diet failed to enhance broiler performance.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Poultry Science, 99(1), p. 505-516
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Place of Publication: Netherlands
ISSN: 1525-3171
0032-5791
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 070204 Animal Nutrition
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 300303 Animal nutrition
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 830503 Live Animals
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 100699 Primary products from animals not elsewhere classified
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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School of Environmental and Rural Science

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