Mohammad Hosein Shahir; Afshin Heidariniya; Hamidreza Taheri; Abdollah Hoseini
Volume 15, Issue 1 , July 2014, , Pages 55-64
Abstract
In order to determine the appropriate standardized ileal digestible (SID) lysine requirement in growingmale turkey poults (28-49 day of olds), one hundred sixty birds were used in a completely randomizeddesign with eight treatments (8 levels of SID lysine: 1.15 (basal diet), 1.225, 1.3, 1.375, 1.45, ...
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In order to determine the appropriate standardized ileal digestible (SID) lysine requirement in growingmale turkey poults (28-49 day of olds), one hundred sixty birds were used in a completely randomizeddesign with eight treatments (8 levels of SID lysine: 1.15 (basal diet), 1.225, 1.3, 1.375, 1.45, 1.525, 1.6,1.675 percent) in 4 replicates of 5 birds. Increasing of SID lysine levels increased body weight gain anddecreased feed conversion ratio. Dietary treatment of 1.6 percent SID lysine had the highest body weightgain and the lowest FCR compared to the basal diet (P<0.05). By using of broken line-linear ascending,quadratic polynomial and broken line- quadratic ascending models, SID lysine requirements for weightgain were 1.47±0.11, 1.57±0.04 and 1.49±0.05 and for FCR were 1.57±0.17, 1.61±0.02 and 1.59±0.08,respectively. In conclusion, SID lysine requirements for body weight gain ranged between 1.47 to 1.57and for FCR between 1.57 to 1.61 percent.