Diurnal Change in the Rates of Nτ-methylhistidine Excretion in Laying Hens

Hayashi, Kunioki; Ishibashi, Teru; Mukai, Michiko; Toyomizu, Masaaki; Tomita, Y.

doi:10.2508/chikusan.62.247

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“…When the dietary supply of amino acids is not enough to meet the temporal high needs of amino acids, the deficient amino acids may be supplied by the degradation of muscle protein (Hayashi et al . 1991).…”

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Amino acid nutrition in egg production industry

Ishibashi¹,

Yonemochi²

2003

Animal Science Journal

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The egg production industry is facing various problems that need to be solved. For amino acid nutrition to achieve scientific and economical feeding of laying hens, it is necessary to elucidate the content, digestibility, or availability of nutrients of feedstuffs and feeds and the requirement of amino acids for laying hens. In addition, improvement to quality of eggs and meat of spent hens, methods of management and development of new feedstuffs are essential. For sustainable animal production, decrease in excreta and animal welfare should be studied. The real‐time determination of content and digestibility of amino acids in feedstuffs are essential for formation of feeds. Recent advances in the near infrared reflectance analysis will be able to determine the content, digestibility and availability of nutrients in feedstuffs and feeds, if we have a supplemental amount of conventional analysis to define the calibration population. The amino acid requirements are affected by various factors. Therefore the method to quickly and exactly determine amino acid requirements in response to various factors is necessary. By using plasma free amino acid concentration as a criterion, it is possible to determine amino acid requirements in various conditions of laying hens within a short experimental period, repeatedly using the same animals. Because the amino acid requirements differ among individual animals, it should be expressed as grams per hen per day. Practically, it is impossible to formulate various feeds for individual hens. The various expressions have been developed and these expressions have advantages and disadvantages. The nitrogen excretion of laying hens is easily reduced by reducing dietary nitrogen levels and restricting the feed intake. The availability of amino acid may be improved by feeding management, and supplementing enzyme, but the quality of eggs and meat of spent hens and welfare of laying hens are not affected by amino acid nutrition.

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Section: Problems To Be Solved In the Futurementioning

confidence: 99%