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A Comparison of Substitution Method and Direct Force-Feeding Method for Evaluating Nutritional Value of Amino Acids and Energy of Wheat for Meat Ducklings

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  • FGD Lab, Sichuan Tieqilishi Industrial Co. , Ltd. , Mianyang 621006, China

Received date: 2011-08-16

  Online published: 2012-01-13

Abstract

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the nutritional value of amino acids and energy of wheat by substitution method and direct force-feeding method for meat ducklings, and to study the differences between the two methods. Forty-eight 15-day-old ducklings were allotted to 4 treatments with 12 replicates and 1 duckling per replicate in a completely randomized design. The ducklings in treatments 1 to 3 were fed basal diet (basal diet group), 80% basal diet+20% wheat (substitution group) and 100% wheat (direct force-feeding group), respectively, and ducklings in the treatment 4 were hungry for detecting endogenous lost. The results showed as follows: 1) in dry matter of wheat, the crude protein content and total energy value were 16.09% and 18.56 MJ/kg, respectively; 2) except glutamic acid, proline and cystine,the amino acid availability assayed by the substitution method was higher than that assayed by the direct force-feeding method (P<0.01). The apparent availability of total amino acids were 86.59% and 82.42%, and the true availability of total amino acids were 92.36% and 90.80% assayed by the substitution method and direct force-feeding method, respectively; 3) there was no significant difference between the two methods in energy availability and metabolisable energy value (P>0.05). The energy apparent availability, energy true availability, apparent metabolisable energy value and true metabolisable energy value assayed by the substitution method were 77.51%, 86.23%, 14.38 and 16.00 MJ/kg, respectively, while the energy apparent availability, energy true availability, apparent metabolisable energy value and true metabolisable energy value assayed by the direct force-feeding method were 75.95%, 84.81%, 14.09 and 15.74 MJ/kg, respectively. There is no significant difference between substitution method and direct force-feeding method in metabolisable energy assay, however, the results of amino acid availability obtained by the substitution method are higher than those obtained by the direct force-feeding method, which indicates that suitable substitution ratio still need further study.

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DU Yiting, GAO Qing, YANG Yufeng, FENG Guangde, WU Chenglin . A Comparison of Substitution Method and Direct Force-Feeding Method for Evaluating Nutritional Value of Amino Acids and Energy of Wheat for Meat Ducklings[J]. Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, 2012 , 24(1) : 104 -110 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2012.01.015

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