A trial was carried out to determine the nutritional requeriments of methionine + cystine (M+C). A total of 360 laying hens was allotted to a completely randomized design with five treatments and 12 replicates of six birds. The corn-soybean meal based diets were formulated to be isonitrogenous (17.2% CP) and isoenergy (2,800 kcal ME/kg) to meet the bird requeriment in all nutrients, except for M+C, that was supplemented with DL-methionine (99%) in replacement with corn starch. The following total M+C […]

This trial was conducted to study the use of mannanoligosaccharide (standard and concentrate) on chicks diets. One thousand and eigthy 1-d male chicks (Ross) averaging 42 g of initial BW were assigned to a completely randomized experiment with nine replications of 20 birds per experimental unit. The following treatments were analyzed: control, antibiotic (avilamicine), mannaoligosaccharide high concentration (MOS AT), mannaoligosaccharide standard (MOS ST), MOS AT + antibiotic, and MOS ST + antibiotic. The birds were reared in wood powder, reused […]

A trial was conducted to evaluate the effect of reduced CP, amino acid-supplemented diets on performance of castrated males swines on high environmental temperature (32ºC). A total of sixty crossbred piglets (Landrace x Large White) averaging initial weight of 15.2 kg was allotted to completely randomized experimental design with five treatments (18, 17, 16, 15, and 14% of CP), six replications and two animals per experimental unit. The experimental diets were fed to swine ad libitum until the end of […]

This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of environmental temperature on performance, carcass composition and physiological parameters of pigs from 30 to 60 kg of weight. Thirty six barrow (Landrace x Large White) with initial weight of 29.94 ± 0.49 kg, were assigned to a completely randomized experimental design with three treatments six replicates and two animals per experimental unity. The experimental period lasted 35 days. The treatments consisted of T1 Animals on heat stress (32ºC) fed ad […]

This trial was conducted to evaluate the dietary levels of digestible threonine for growing gilts on heat stress environment. Seventy crossbreed gilts averaging initial weight of 14.9 ± 0.56 kg were assigned to a complete randomized blocks design with five treatments (levels of digestible threonine) of seven replications (two animals per experimental unity). The treatments consisted of the following dietary digestible threonine levels: 0.538, 0.577, 0.614, 0.651, and 0.688%. Daily weight gain and threonine intake linearly increased as the dietary […]

A trial was conduced with to evaluate the levels of folic acid in diets supplemented with formic acid for piglets from 21 to 48 days old. 160 crossbred piglets were used with initial average weight of 5.67 ± 0,90 kg in a completely randomized experimental block design, with five treatments, eight replications of four animals each. Two basal diets with increasing formic acid levels (0.24 and 0.20%) were formulated (pre-starter I = from 21 to 35 days old and pre-starter […]

A trial was conduced to evaluate decreasing levels of CP with amino acid supplementation on performance of gilts on thermoneutral environment. Thirty-five crossbreed gilts (Landrace x Large White) averaging initial weight of 60.5 kg were allotted to a complete randomized design with five treatments (17.3, 16, 14.7, 13.4 and 12.1% of CP) of seven replications (one animal per experimental unit). The experimental diets were fed ad libitum until the end of the experiment when the animals reached the average weight […]

One experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of the addition of multienzymatic complex in diets with different quality of extruded full fat soybeans on the performance of broiler chicks. A total of 960 Avian Farms male broiler chicks were used from 1 to 21 days of age. The completely randomized experimental design utilized a 3 x 2 factorial treatment structure with three extruded full fat soybeans (under, standard and over processed) and two levels of multienzymatic complex addition (0.0 […]

Two trials were conducted to determine the requirement of methionine + cistyne for Ross female broilers from 1 to 21 and 22 to 42 days old on tropical climate region. The following parameters were evaluated: feed intake, weight gain, feed: gain ratio, absolute weights and yields of noble cuts (breast, thighs and drumsticks) and abdominal fat. The experiment was analyzed as a complete randomized design with six levels of methionine + cystineand four replicates of 12 birds per replicate, in […]

The effect of decreasing dietary CP and supplementation of lysine and methionine+cystine on the performance of 270 laying hens Lohmann LSL strain was evaluated in this trial. The birds averaging 26 weeks of age were allotted to a stocking rate of 562 cm2/bird as a completely randomized design with five replicate of six birds. The treatments were as follows: T1 = control diet (CD) with 16.5% CP, 0.80% of lysine (L) and 0.70% of methionine+cystine (MC); T2 = 15.25% CP, […]