Isoleucine needs of thirty- to forty-two-day-old female chickens: growth and carcass responses
Open Access
- 1 December 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Poultry Science
- Vol. 83 (12), 1986-1991
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ps/83.12.1986
Abstract
Two experiments were conducted to evaluate Ile responses in female broilers. In experiment 1, dietary Ile was 0.42 or 0.72% total of diet. Diets were fed to 3 broiler strains: multipurpose Arbor Acres+, high-yield Ross 508, and high-yield Ross 708. In experiment 2, dietary Ile dose responses (0.42 to 0.82% total of diet in 0.08% increments) were evaluated. A corn-soybean meal control (0.70%) diet was used in experiment 2 (6 replications). No Ile x strain interactions occurred. Feeding broilers 0.42% Ile suppressed (P < 0.05) BW gain, feed intake, feed conversion, and breast and thigh yields. Arbor Acres+ strain had a higher BW gain and feed intake (P < 0.05) than the Ross 508 and 708 strains. Differences (P < 0.05) among strains were observed in breast and drumstick yields; Ross 708 broilers had increased breast and drumstick yields in comparison to birds from the Arbor Acres+ and Ross 508 strains. Birds fed surfeit Ile in the titration diets grew as well as (P < 0.05) the birds fed the control diet. Quadratic responses (P < 0.05; 95% of response) were obtained for BW gain (0.67%), feed intake (0.66%), feed conversion (0.68%), and breast meat yield (0.63%). The 30- to 42-d Ile need for female broilers is between 0.63 and 0.68% of total diet (0.59 to 0.64% digestible Ile).Keywords
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