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The effect of various levels of dietary protein based on total and
digestible amino acids on performance of Ross 308 broilers |
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Abas Masoumi*, Abolfazl Zarei and Behzad Hemmati |
Department of Animal Science, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad
University, Karaj, Iran |
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Abstract |
This experiment was carried out on 288 broilers from Ross 308 strain
with the same initial weight in six treatments. Each treatment had three
replicates with eight males and eight females in each replicate in a
period of 42 days. The metabolic energy was considered constant in this
experiment. The used diets contained low, average and high levels of
protein with digestible and total amino acids according to the suggested
pattern of Ross 308 broiler strain catalogue. The treatments include T1:
Low level of protein with DAA, T2: Average level of protein with DAA T3:
High level of protein with DAA, T4: Low level of protein with TAA, T5:
Average level of protein with TAA, T6: High level of protein with TAA.
During each period of experiment, the characteristics of weight gain,
feed intake, feed conversion ratio and production index were measured.
Weight gain in finisher and total period was significantly high
in T2 group. However, mean feed intake was significantly high in T2
group. Production index was significantly high in T5 in finisher stage
while significantly low in T4 in total period. It can be concluded that
diets with different levels of protein along with digestible amino acids
perform better in production index and parameters consisting of feed
intake, feed conversion and weight gain than diets with different levels
of protein and total amino acids.
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Keywords:
Protein; digestible and total amino acids; performance; production
index; Ross 308 broiler strain
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To cite this article:
Masoumi A, A Zarei and B Hemmati, 2012.
The effect of various levels of
dietary protein based on total and
digestible amino acids on performance of Ross 308 broilers.
Res.
Opin. Anim. Vet. Sci., 2(11), 554-558.
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