The effects of feeding nine nutrition plans (NP) on the performance of 576 quails, allotted to a completely randomized design with nine treatments of four replicates of 16 birds, were evaluated in this trial. The following NP were analyzed from 1 to 21 days of age: NP1 = 28% of crude protein (CP), 1.5% lysine (L) and 1.1% methionine + cystine (MC) from 1 to 21 days and 24%CP, 1.3%L and 0.9% MC from 22 to 42 days (control); NP2 […]

One experiment was carried out using 120 laying Isa Brown chickens fed diets containing sugar-cane yeast, to determinate the methionine+cystine (met+cys) requirements. The birds were 51 weeks old at the beginning of the experiment, with the duration of 84 days, with three periods of 28 days each. A completely randomized block design with five treatments and four replications was used. The treatments consisted of a basal diet supplemented with five levels of DL-methionine in order to obtain diets with 0.45, […]

An experiment was conducted to establish the nutritional requirements of methionine+cystine (Met+Cys) for white-egg and the brown-egg layers hens in the second production cycle. Two hundred and twenty eight Lohmann Selected Leghorn and 288 Lohmann Brown laying hens were submitted to forced molting at the 76 weeks of age, were used. A completely experimental randomized experimental design was used. The treatments consisted of two egg laying strains and six Meth+Cys levels, with six replicates and eight birds per experimental unit. […]