Energy dynamics, nitrogen balance, and performance in broilers fed high- and reduced-CP diets

Title
Energy dynamics, nitrogen balance, and performance in broilers fed high- and reduced-CP diets
Publication Date
2020-12
Author(s)
Musigwa, Sosthene
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1089-0786
Email: smusigw2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:smusigw2
Morgan, Natalie
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9663-2365
Email: nmorga20@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:nmorga20
Swick, Robert A
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3376-1677
Email: rswick@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:rswick
Cozannet, Pierre
Wu, Shu-Biao
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1790-6015
Email: swu3@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:swu3
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1016/j.japr.2020.08.001
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/30388
Abstract
There has been extensive research on feeding broilers low-CP (LCP) diets to reduce nitrogen (N) excretion in the environment. It is well established that broilers fed LCP diets exhibit improvements in N efficiency, but this is coupled with inferior growth performance and poor carcass quality. Therefore, 2 experiments were undertaken to explore energy and N balance and performance in birds fed LCP diets to determine bird responses to dietary energy content. Both experiments used isoenergetic grower–finisher diets formulated to reduced- or high-CP (HCP) level. Measurements of AME, net energy, and N balance were conducted in a calorimetry system (experiment 1), and bird performance was measured in a floor pen feeding study (experiment 2). In experiment 1, birds fed the LCP diet had a comparatively higher ratio of energy (AME and net energy) intake to N retained, higher N efficiency (N retained/N intake), and higher ratio of energy retained as fat to total energy retention. In experiment 2, the LCP-fed birds had a comparatively higher feed conversion ratio at day 14 to 35 and a higher relative fat pad weight on day 35. Abdominal fat pad was positively correlated with the energy (AME and net energy) intake–to–weight gain ratio, suggesting that energy in excess was deposited as fat. These results present more highly efficient use of N in broilers reared on LCP diets. However, these birds also consumed excess energy relative to N retained, which was deposited as body fat accretion, thereby increasing the feed conversion ratio.
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Citation
The Journal of Applied Poultry Research, 29(4), p. 830-841
ISSN
1537-0437
1056-6171
1542-6629
Start page
830
End page
841
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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