“…Until certain reduction in dietary CP, animals can reduce the nitrogen excretion, increasing the available nitrogen for amino acids synthesis and maintaining the same performance (Deschepper & deGroote, 1995). However, with an excessive reduction in dietary CP, even with the supplementation of EAA, animals can present a reduction in performance, as observed in this and other studies (Awad et al, 2015;Corzo et al, 2005;Jiang et al, 2005;Maia et al, 2021).…”