Pollution relative to phosphorus excretion in poultry manure, as well as the soaring prices of phosphate, a non-renewable resource, remain of major importance.
Chickens did not regulate feed intake when fed using a sequential feeding schedule (diets of different nutritional value offered in cycles) over the medium term (day) on energy related to protein content.
The structure of short-term feeding behaviour that results from intensive genetic selection for growth is similar to that observed in many other species.
Take Home Message: Use B-xylanase enzymes in barley-based diets to improve the performance of broilers to similar levels as birds fed wheat-based diets.
Enzymes have the potential to improve the utilisation of barley-based diets – increasing bird performance and reducing the cost of broiler production.
Some good news from researchers in the UK and Pakistan, who’ve completed [...]
Feeding broilers stearidonic acid produced meat with nutritionally significant concentrations of LC n-3 PUFA while reducing the taint detected when birds were fed fish oil.
Supplementing Ross broilers with antibiotics, medicinal plants or organic acids significantly improved body weight, average daily gain and feed:gain ratio during the first 42 days, compared to birds fed an unsupplemented ration.
The proportion of S. typhimurium-shedding chickens was decreased significantly in both chickens fed fermented liquid feed and acidified feed.
Take Home Message: For broilers fed diets high in rapeseed meal, include enzymes to enhance performance
Non-starch polysaccharide (NSP)-degrading and phytase enzymes incorporated in rapeseed meal based broiler diet could be beneficial. That was the finding of a trail, carried out by Iranian scientists, which was presented to delegates at the British Society of Animal Science’s [...]
Co-products from the biofuel industry have the potential to be important feed sources for the pig and poultry industries.
