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Nutritional value of soybean meal produced from conventional, high-protein, or low-oligosaccharide varieties of soybeans and fed to broiler chicks

Baker, K. M., P. L. Utterback, C. M. Parsons and H. H. Stein
2011

A 14-day broiler study was conducted comparing diets formulated based on the digestible AA and TMEn values that were measured in the previous experiments. The three corn-based diets contained 31.21, 32.60 and 38.21% SBM-HP, SCM-LO and SBM-CV, respectively, based on differences in digestible AAs and metabolizable energy levels. Results indicated no differences among the three diets for body weight gain or feed efficiency, which indicated that the reduced inclusion rates of SBM-HP and SBM-LO compared with SBM-CV were not detrimental to broiler chick growth performance. It was concluded that, SBM processed from high protein or low oligosaccharide soybeans are needed in lower concentrations in broiler diets compared to SBM process from conventional soybeans since these SBM have a greater nutritional value than does conventional SBM.

K. M. Baker, P. L. Utterback, C. M. Parsons and H. H. Stein. 2011. Nutritional value of soybean meal produced from conventional, high-protein, or low-oligosaccharide varieties of soybeans and fed to broiler chicks. Poultry Sci. (90):390-395.