Summary
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Program
Chicken Meat
Research Organisation
University of Western Australia
Objective Summary
To provide the poultry industry with suitable alternatives to animal proteins (eg. meatmeal) and imported soybean meal by improving the nutritive value of locallygrown legumes lupins and lathyrus. We think that if these legumes are treated with enzymesthat are not present in the digestive tract of birds a more extensive breakdown of pectin and therefore cell walls can be acheived. By doing so we should be able to; i) increase the nutritive value by making more nutrients available to the bird for digestion; ii) reduce waterholding capacity of digesta and hence wet droppings iii) reduce viscosity of digesta and allow a greater digestibility of released nutrients and iv) reduce excretion of nutrients into the environment.
Project Code
PRJ-000449
Project Stage
Closed
Project Start Date
Friday, December 1, 2006
Project Completion Date
Friday, October 24, 2008
Journal Articles From Project
Not Available
National Priority
Frontier technologies for building and transforming Australian industries
National Priority
Adoption of R&D
National Priority
CME-Improve chicken meat production through the whole supply chain