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Response of growing goslings to dietary methionine from 28 to 70 days of age.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20390576     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
1. A dose-response experiment with 5 dietary methionine concentrations (23, 33, 43, 53 and 63 g/kg) was conducted with goslings to estimate the growth performance and carcase quality response of growing goslings to dietary methionine from 28 to 70 d of age. 2. A total of 150, 28-d-old birds were randomly distributed to 15 pens with 10 birds per pen according to similar pen weight. There were 5 dietary treatments, each containing three replicate pens. Weight gain, feed intake and feed/gain of goslings from each pen were measured at 2-week intervals from 28 to 70 d of age. At 70 d of age, 4 goslings were selected randomly from each pen and slaughtered to evaluate carcase quality. 3. Significant effects of dietary methionine on daily weight gain (28-56 d) and daily feed intake were determined. Daily weight gain from 28 to 42 d and 28 to 56 d, daily feed intake and gain/feed showed significant quadratic response to increasing dietary methionine, while abdominal fat proportion showed a significant linear response. 4. When dietary CP concentration was 1582 g/kg, the optimal methionine concentrations for growing goslings from 28 to 42 d and 28 to 56 d of age for maximum daily weight gain were 407 and 4.14 g/kg, respectively.
Authors:
Z Y Wang; S R Shi; Q Y Zhou; H M Yang; J M Zou; K N Zhang; H M Han
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  British poultry science     Volume:  51     ISSN:  1466-1799     ISO Abbreviation:  Br. Poult. Sci.     Publication Date:  2010 Feb 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-04-14     Completed Date:  2010-07-14     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  15740290R     Medline TA:  Br Poult Sci     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  118-21     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China. dkwzy@263.net
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Animals
Body Weight / physiology*
Eating / physiology*
Geese / growth & development*,  metabolism
Meat / standards*
Methionine / pharmacology*
Random Allocation
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
63-68-3/Methionine

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