title: Sulfur amino acid requirement and cystine replacement value of broiler chicks during the period three to six weeks posthatching.
abstract: Three experiments were conducted with commercial broiler chicks to determine the SAA requirement during the growth period 3 to 6 wk posthatching. A 20% CP corn-peanut meal basal diet (3,200 kcal ME(n)/kg) was analyzed to contain 0.23% Met and 0.28% cystine. True digestibility assessment in cecectomized cockerels revealed that Met and cystine in the basal diet were 81 and 75% digestible, respectively. Therefore, the basal diet contained 0.19% digestible Met and 0.21% digestible cystine. When fully fortified with DL-Met, growth rate and feed efficiency of chicks fed the corn-peanut meal diet were equal to that of chicks fed a 20% CP Met-fortified corn-soybean meal diet. In the SAA requirement assay, Ross x Hubbard male chicks were fed graded increments of DL-Met (0.03%) and L-cystine (0.03%) to achieve digestible SAA concentrations of 0.40, 0.46, 0.52, 0.58, 0.64, and 0.70%. Weight gain and feed efficiency responded quadratically (P < 0.01) to increasing doses of SAA. The estimated requirement for maximal feed efficiency was higher than that for maximal weight gain. Both visual appraisal and curve fitting procedures suggested a requirement of close to 0.61% digestible SAA. When extrapolated to a corn-soybean meal diet where SAA true digestibility is 87.5%, the total SAA requirement calculates to be 0.70% of the diet. However, because commercial corn-soybean meal diets typically contain supplemental Met, which is only 81% efficient (wt:wt) in furnishing cystine, the estimated total SAA requirement for chicks fed 20% CP Met-fortified corn-soybean meal diets with 3,200 kcal of ME/kg would probably approximately 0.72% of the diet. A DL-Met vs L-cystine supplementation assay suggested that digestible cystine can supply no more than 52% of the total requirement for digestible SAA of chicks during the 3- to 6-wk growth period.
authors: Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA.
authors: D H
authors: DH
authors: Baker
authors: S R
authors: SR
authors: Fernandez
authors: D M
authors: DM
authors: Webel
authors: C M
authors: CM
authors: Parsons
mesh_terms: D000603:Amino Acids, Sulfur / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D002645:Chickens / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism*; D003553:Cystine / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000378:metabolism; D005527:Food, Fortified; D008297:Male; D008715:Methionine / Q000008:administration & dosage; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D015430:Weight Gain / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D000603:Amino Acids, Sulfur; D003553:Cystine; D008715:Methionine