Standardized Ileal Amino Acid Digestibility of Commonly Used Feed Ingredients in Growing Broilers

Zafar Ullah; Gulraiz Ahmed; Mehr Un Nisa; Muhammad Sarwar

doi:10.5713/ajas.15.0703

Standardized Ileal Amino Acid Digestibility of Commonly Used Feed Ingredients in Growing Broilers

Asian-Australas J Anim Sci. 2016 Sep;29(9):1322-30. doi: 10.5713/ajas.15.0703. Epub 2016 Jan 5.

Authors

Zafar Ullah^{1

2}, Gulraiz Ahmed³, Mehr Un Nisa⁴, Muhammad Sarwar¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Animal Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan.
² Department of Animal Sciences, University of Sargodha, Sargodha 40100, Pakistan.
³ Sadiq Feeds (Pvt.) Ltd., Rawalpindi 46300, Pakistan.
⁴ Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Home Economics, Government College University, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan.

Abstract

This experiment was conducted to determine standardized ileal amino acid digestibility (SIAAD) of commonly used feed ingredients in poultry diets in Pakistan. These feed ingredients included corn, rice broken (RB), rice polishings (RP), wheat bran (WB), sunflower meal (SFM), cottonseed meal (CSM), guar meal (GM), soybean meal (SBM) from India and Argentine and fish meal (FM). The SIAAD of each ingredient was determined in triplicate using 21-days-old broilers. Day-old male broiler chicks (Hubbard× Hubbard) were reared on corn-SBM based diet from 1 to 13 days and thereafter birds were fed experimental diets from day 14 to 21. Each diet was fed to 36 birds kept in six replicate cages, each cage had six birds. In cereals, the SIAAD of corn's amino acid (AA) (90.1%) was similar (p>0.05) to RB (89.0%). Isoleucine (97.8%) and lysine (96.9%) were highly digestible AA in corn and RB, respectively. Among cereal-by products, WB's SIAAD (76.9%) was same (p>0.05) as RP (71.9%). Arginine from WB (82.5%) and RP (83.2%) was highly digestible. However, threonine in WB (72.7%) and leucine in RP (69.6%) were the lowest digestible AAs. In plant protein meals, AAs from Argentine-SBM (85.1%) and Indian-SBM (83.4%) had higher (p<0.5) SIAAD than other protein meals. However, SIAAD of SFM (77.1%) and CSM (71.7%) was intermediate while GM (60.3%) exhibited the lowest (p<0.05) SIAAD among all ingredients. Arginine from GM (76.9%), CSM (85.8%), SBM-India (89.5%) and SBM-Argentine (91.5%) was highly digestible from indispensable AAs. In SFM, methionine (91.4%) SIAAD was the greatest. The average SIAAD of FM was 77.6%. Alanine from FM had the highest (84.0%) but cysteine (62.8%) had the lowest SIAAD. In conclusion, cereals i.e. corn and RB had higher (p<0.05) SIAAD of the cereals by-products. The SIAAD of RP and WB was same (p>0.05). The SBM from plant protein meals had higher (p<0.05) SIAAD than other studied feed ingredients. However, the GM had the lowest (p<0.05) SIAAD among protein meals.

Keywords: Broilers; Cereal By-products; Cereals; Digestible Amino Acids.