Can I read Chemical and Physical Predictors of the Nutritive Value of Wheat in Broiler Diets on EtoBox?

Chemical and Physical Predictors of the Nutritive Value of Wheat in Broiler Diets by M. E. E. Ball; B. Owens; K. J. McCracken is a Agricultural and Biological Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Chemical and Physical Predictors of the Nutritive Value of Wheat in Broiler Diets about?

The aim of this study was to establish relationships between chemical and physical parameters of wheat with performance and digestibilities of feed components in broiler chickens fed on wheat-based diets. Ninety-four wheat samples were selected for inclusion in four bird trials. Birds were housed in individual wire metabolism cages from 7 to 28 d and offered water and feed __ad libitum__. Dry matter intake (DMI), liveweight gain (LWG) and gain:feed were measured weekly. A balance collection was carried out from 14 to 21 d for determination of apparent metabolizable energy (AME), ME:gain, dry matter retention, oil and neutral detergent fibre (NDF) digestibility. At 28 d the birds were humanely killed, the contents of the jejunum removed for determination of __in vivo__ viscosity and the contents of the ileum removed for determination of ileal dry matter, starch and protein digestibility. When wheat parameters were correlated with bird performance data, it was found that specific weight was not significantly (p>0.05) related to bird performance. Bird DMI, LWG and gain:feed were best correlated (p<0.05) with the rate of starch digestion, although the coefficients of correlation (r) we

Who reads Chemical and Physical Predictors of the Nutritive Value of Wheat in Broiler Diets?

Author

M. E. E. Ball; B. Owens; K. J. McCracken

Publisher

Asian Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies; Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies (ISSN 1011-2367)

Published

2013

Language

EN

Field

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)