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| Title: | Nutritive value of winter wheat for broiler chickens |
| Authors: | Hughes, R. J
Acone, L
Zviedrans, P
Choct, M |
| Keywords: | winter
red
wheat
broilers
energy
nutrition
AME
chickens
PGLP |
| Issue Date: | 2000 |
| Publisher: | University of Sydney |
| Citation: | Proceeding Australian Poultry Science Symposium, (2000), 12, 137-140 |
| Abstract: | The nutritive value of Australian winter wheat varieties for broiler chickens was assessed in a series of conventional energy balance studies each of 7-days duration. Across all samples, the mean and standard deviation for apparent metabolisable energy (AME, MJ/kg dry matter) were 14.29±0.36 (n=25) and ranged from 13.68 to 15.02. For individual varieties, means and standard deviations were 14.80±0.03 for Declic (n=2), 14.31±0.33 for Lawson (n=16), 13.97±0.34 for More (n=4) and 14.20±0.09 for Paterson (n=3). In conclusion, winter wheats were consistently high in AME but, nevertheless, were responsive to endo-1,4-xylanase added to the diet. Uplift in AME of wheat due to enzyme supplementation averaged 0.7 MJ/kg (4.9%) and ranged from 0.22 MJ/kg (1.5%) to 1.13 MJ/kg (8.2%). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3552 |
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