Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (2): 722-736.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2025.02.023

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Evaluation and Prediction Equation Construction of Standardized Ileal Amino Acid Digestibility of Corn from Different Sources in 28-day-old White-feathered Broilers

HANG Zhenyu(), WANG Ziyi, ZHANG Lin, XING Tong, ZHAO Liang, GAO Feng*()   

  1. Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Meat Production and Processing, Quality and Safety Control/Key Laboratory of Animal Origin Food Production and Safety Guarantee of Jiangsu Province/College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
  • Received:2024-03-15 Online:2025-02-23 Published:2025-02-26
  • Contact: GAO Feng E-mail:hang_zy@163.com;gaofeng0629@njau.edu.cn

Abstract:

This study aimed to analyze the nutrients content of corn from ten different sources, determine the apparent ileal amino acid digestibility (AID AA) and standardized ileal amino acid digestibility (SID AA) of corn in 28-day-old white-feathered broilers and construct the prediction equations of SID AA. A total of 330 1-day-old healthy male broilers (Arbor Acres) were randomly divided into 11 groups with 6 replicates per group and 5 broilers per replicate. At the age of 25 d, broilers in 11 treatments were fed 10 experimental diets which the protein sources only came from corn and a nitrogen-free diet, respectively. All broilers were euthanized on 28 d, and the ileal digesta were collected to determine the standardized ileal amino acid digestibility. The results showed that, the average content of dry matter(DM), crude protein(CP), ether extract(EE), Ash, crude fiber(CF), neutral detergent fiber(NDF), acid detergent fiber(ADF), nitrogen-free extract(NFE), phytic acid(PA), total phosphorous(TP), total starch(TS) of corn from 10 different sources were 87.14%, 9.04%, 3.94%, 1.36%, 1.97%, 10.07%, 2.61%, 70.82%, 0.84%, 0.26% and 74.56%, respectively. The content of 18 amino acids ranged from 0.20% to 1.99%. Pro had the highest coefficient of variation (22.84%) and the coefficient of variation of Cys (10.34%) was the lowest. The AID and SID were the lowest for threonine (44.80% and 68.15%), and the highest for leucine (83.93% and 89.56%). The AID AA and SID AA were significantly affected by the sources(P < 0.05). A total of 16 SID AA prediction equations of corn in 28-day-old white-feathered broilers were constructed, among which SID Phe had the highest fitting degree (R2=0.962) and SID Gly had the lowest fitting degree (R2=0.478). In conclusion, the prediction equations established in this study had a better reference value for realizing precise nutrition and efficient utilization of corn in white-feathered broilers.

Key words: corn, white-feathered broiler, standardized ileal amino acid digestibility (SID AA), prediction equation

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