Determination and prediction of standardized ileal amino acid digestibility of wheat shorts for pullets during the brooding and growing phases
Chong Chen, Shiqian Liu, Kaiyue Ren, Liang Zhao, Tong Xing, Liren Ding, Feng Gao, Lin Zhang · 2026
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Description
Chong Chen and co-authors measured in 2026 how well young chickens can actually absorb amino acids from wheat shorts, a cheap milling by-product. They also built equations to predict that value from simple chemistry. Nearly a thousand pullets ate diets based on ten wheat shorts samples from different regions, at both the brooding and growing stages, with a marker tracking digestion.
Digestibility swung widely between samples, with cysteine the hardest amino acid to absorb and glutamic acid the easiest at both ages. Fiber measures, starch, and energy content predicted digestibility best, and the top equations explained up to about 98 percent of the variation in one case. The authors give feed makers a way to price and use a variable ingredient without running animal trials each time.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chong Chen, Shiqian Liu, Kaiyue Ren, Liang Zhao, Tong Xing, Liren Ding, Feng Gao, Lin Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 51252 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |