China is currently
the largest importer and consumer of broiler chicken in the world because of
the shift in protein consumption from pig to poultry in the country. The country has a very low grandparent stock
at the moment and therefore, has allowed the sourcing of grandparent stock from
countries that were earlier banned because of the threat of AI in those
regions. The local poultry farmers are also trying to increase their
productions to gain maximum benefit from the current high demand. According to
the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the total number of slaughtered
broiler chicken has hit 4.2 billion nationwide in the first six months of 2019
and total chicken production has reached up to 6.64 million metric tons, which
is expected to increase further by the end of this year.
This current
scenario is pushing the poultry farmers to search for feed options that will
further optimize the production of broiler chickens and one of approach that
has recently been developed by Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition Europe is the
implication of customized amino acid approach, which gives the possibility to
tackle the challenges of dependency on soybean meal, the waste of nitrogen as
well as footpad dermatitis. The new
approach developed Ajinomoto in Europe aims at taking into account the economic
response to each amino acid, their interaction and the qualification of the
economic, social and environmental benefits.
Broilers fed diet
low in protein only exhibit good technical performance when dietary amino acids
are adequately supplied. However, with the new approach, an ideal amino acid
profile is created to optimize broiler performance, which is the need of the
Chinese broiler industry. The requirements
are expressed as a ratio to lysine, which is estimated by dose-response
studies, integrated into a meta-analysis to take into account the variability
lined to age, breed and statistical model.
Implicating the approach, dietary crude protein can be safely reduced
while maintaining growth performance, feed efficiency, and cut-up yields.
Furthermore, nitrogen excretion to the environment is known to be reduced by
10% for each point of dietary protein reduction due to reduced catabolism of
excess amino acids.
The new approach
to the use of amino acids will benefit the Chinese poultry farm producers as it
will allow them to accelerate innovation in terms of adding more amino acids to
reduce protein in feed formulation and using one silo instead of three. Moreover,
it will also allow them to confine to the strict environmental regulations
implemented by the Chinese government.
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