Summary
Antinutrients in the diet affect energy and nutrient utilisation on two levels. First, they affect the digestibility of nutrients and hence energy; and secondly, they increase metabolic heat production as the gut system has to work a lot harder to deal with them during digestion and metabolism. The net energy system, through the measurement of heat production and heat increment, will account for most of these effects. This project will invovle several stages of development as follows: Stage 1. The basics for NE measurement Stage 2. Development of NE values Stage 3. Predicted vs measured NE values Stage 4. Commercialscale validation trials Stage 5. Effects of feed additives, including antibiotics on NE values Stage 6. Net energy database for industry Finally, if commercial trials are successful, an Australiawide implementation of the net energy system will occur in consultation with industry.
Program
Chicken Meat
Research Organisation
University of New England
Objective Summary
Generate a basic database on net energy values using a range of welldefined diets for developing a prediction equation for NE; Determine determined vs predicted NE values of commonly used ingredients in Australia; Conduct semicommercial and commercial scale experiments to examine whether diets formulated on a net energy basis will give a commercial advantage (better FCR, carcass yield, feed cost or N excretion) to the producer, and if this is proven positive, then Produce an NE database for the industry to use.
Project Code
PRJ-003306
Project Stage
Closed
Project Start Date
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Project Completion Date
Friday, May 15, 2015
Journal Articles From Project
Not Available
National Priority
Safeguarding Australia
National Priority
Adoption of R&D
National Priority
CME-Improve chicken meat production through the whole supply chain