Valine Needs of Male Broilers from 42 to 56 Days of Age
Open Access
- 1 June 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Poultry Science
- Vol. 83 (6), 946-951
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ps/83.6.949
Abstract
An experiment was conducted using Ross × Ross 308 males to estimate the proportion of dietary valine needed to optimize performance in broilers from 42 to 56 d of age. All birds received common feeds from 0 to 42 d, and then experimental diets were given to 56 d of age. A diet consisting of corn, soybean meal, and corn gluten meal (17% CP, 3.25 kcal of ME/g) having 0.60% valine served as basal feed. All other essential amino acids were above recommended levels. Successive additions of 0.07% of L-valine were isonitrogenously substituted for L-glutamic acid up to a total of 0.81%. Regression analysis (95% of response) indicated that valine at 0.72% of the diet maximized body weight gain, whereas 0.73% optimized feed conversion. Depot fat removed from the abdominal cavity after processing was unaltered, and weights of resultant chilled carcasses maximized at 0.73% valine in parallel with final live weight. The amount of fillets recovered from chilled carcasses optimized at 0.73% valine; however, the incidence of distinctive blood streaks in the meat (splash) progressively increased with valine as did the level of redness apart from streaking, based on light reflectance. Given lysine at 0.85%, a ratio of 0.86 with valine appears to be adequate. The presently determined requirement of 0.73% total valine (0.67% digestible) for broiler males from 42 to 56 d of age is slightly higher than the 0.70% recommended by the NRC.Keywords
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