Metabolizable energy values of corn and wheat middlings in broiler chickens

Autor: Andrew E. Dunaway, S. A. Adedokun
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Canadian Journal of Animal Science. 99:905-913
ISSN: 1918-1825
0008-3984
DOI: 10.1139/cjas-2019-0023
Popis: Two experiments were conducted to evaluate adaptation length (AL) and composition of reference diets on nitrogen (N)-corrected apparent metabolizable energy (AMEn) in 22-d-old broilers. Birds were allocated to nine treatments (n = 6) consisting of wheat – soybean meal (SBM) (reference diet), corn–wheat–SBM, and wheat middlings (WM)–wheat–SBM (exp. 1), or oats–SBM (reference diet), corn–oats–SBM, and WM–oats–SBM (exp. 2) in conjunction with three AL (12, 8, and 4 d) in a factorial arrangement of treatments (3 × 3). Dry matter (DM), N, energy (En) utilization, and AMEn of corn and WM were determined using the difference method. In exp. 1, birds on the WM–wheat–SBM-based diet had the lowest (P
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