Free‐choice feeding of broilers at high temperatures
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in British Poultry Science
- Vol. 27 (4) , 577-584
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00071668608416916
Abstract
1. Broilers fed complete diets to 21 but not 44 d of age grew faster with a better efficiency of food utilisation than broilers given a free‐choice selection of the cereal and protein components. 2. When finisher diets, varying in metabolisable energy (ME) and amino acid:ME ratios, were fed at high ambient temperatures (25 to 35 °C) broilers on the free‐choice system selected similar amino acid:ME intake ratios, which were lower than the ratios contained in the complete diets. 3. Differences in broiler performance between 22 and 44 d of age reflected variations in ME rather than amino acid intake.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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