With the objective to establish the nutritional requirement of methionine + cystine for light and semi-heavy laying hens, in the period from 34 to 50 weeks old, 360 laying hens (half Lohmann and half Lohmann Brown) were submitted to a basal ration containing 2.850 kcal ME/kg, 15.0% CP, supplemented with five levels (0.00, 0.052, 0.107, 0.162, and 0.217%) of DL-methionine, to provide 0.517, 0.569, 0.624, 0.679, and 0.734% of digestible methionine + cystine in the rations. A 5 x 2 […]

With the objective to establish the nutritional requirement of lysine for light and semi-heavy laying hens, in the period from 34 to 50 weeks old, 360 laying hens (half Lohmann and half Lohmann Brown) were submitted to a basal ration containing 2.850 kcal ME/kg, 15.0% CP, supplemented with five levels (0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15 and 0.20%) of L-lysine, to provide 0.584, 0.634, 0.684, 0.734, and 0.784% of digestible lysine in the rations. A 5 x 2 (lysine level and laying […]

The fatty acids composition of broiler tissue was evaluated using two hundred male Cobb chicks. They were raised from 22 days of age with experimental diets based on corn and soybean meal supplemented with 4 or 8% of passion fruit peel and 4 or 8% of passion fruit seed. A completely randomized experimental design was used with a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement with an additional treatment (Control, 0% of passion fruit byproducts), with four replications and ten birds per […]

This study was aimed to evaluate the effects of the dietary digestible lysine levels and environmental temperature on performance and carcass characteristics of broiler chickens from 22 to 42 days-old. Six hundred seventy two males Ross® broiler chickens with an average weight of 726 g were allotted to a completely randomized design, in a 4 × 4 factorial arrangement with six replicates and seven birds per experimental unit. The chickens were fed with different digestible lysine levels in the diet […]

The economic and productive performances of the dietary corn replacement with cassava shavings flour were evaluated in 200 Lohmann LSL laying hens with 46 weeks old, kept in 25 cages. The experiment was analyzed as a complete randomized design with five treatments and five replicates of eight birds per experimental unit. The treatments consisted of five levels (0, 25, 50, 75, and 100%) of corn replacement with cassava shavings flour. Quadractic effect on daily feed intake, with averages of 100.68, […]

The objective of this work was to evaluate the inter treatment discrimination according to feed conversion efficiency in several animal performance experiments. The variables investigated were: feed conversion ratio (FCR = intake: production ratio), feed efficiency index (FEI = production: intake ratio) and bio-nutritional index (BNI). The BNI was constructed from the first canonical variable obtained based on the multivariate analysis of variance of the intake and animal production (weight gain or milk production) variables. The results indicated that FCR […]

An experiment was carried out at Universidade Federal de Viçosa to determine the metabolizable energy values of different samples of feather meal and poultry by-product meal with different levels of inclusion and at different poultry ages. The ten treatments used to determine energy consisted of a reference diet and ten test diets, obtained with the replacement of reference diet by five levels (5, 10, 20, 30 and 40%) of feedstuffs. The metabolism trials (total fecal collection) were carried out in […]

Three assays were carried out to determine methionine + cystine requirement and the digestible methionine + cystine: digestible lysine ratio of males broilers, Avian Farms, from 1 to 20, 24 to 38 and 44 to 56 days of age. Each experiment was a completely randomized design with five levels of methionine + cystine, six replications and 20 birds per pen from 1 to 20 and 24 to 38 and 16 birds per pen from 44 to 56 day of age, […]

Three assays were carried out to determine the threonine requirement and the digestible threonine:lysine ratio of broiler males, Avian Farm, from 1 to 20, 24 to 38 and 44 to 56 days of age. A completely randomized design with five levels of threonine, six replicates and 20 birds per pen from 1 to 20 and 24 to 38, and 16 birds per pens from 44 to 56 were used in each experiment. The concentrations of digestible threonine were 0.684 to […]

A serie of experiments was carried out with the objective to determine the nutritive value of nine poultry by-product meal and six feather meal for chickens. Four different methodologies were used to determine the values of N corrected apparent (AMEn) and true corrected (TMEn) metabolizable energy, where the traditional method was used with chicks and cocks and the Sibbald method was used with roosters and cecectomized cocks. The estimated AMEn and TMEn values of viscera meal ranged from 3,051 to […]