1. Refining the metabolisable energy value of field beans for turkeys.
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Pirgozliev V, Mansbridge SC, Abdulla JM, Whiting IM, Mirza MW, Yang Z, and Rose SP
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- Animals, Female, Animal Feed analysis, Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Chickens metabolism, Diet veterinary, Digestion, Energy Metabolism, Turkeys, Vicia faba chemistry
- Abstract
1. This study examined the feeding value of ten UK grown field bean ( Vicia faba L. var. minor) cultivar samples from the same harvest year on nitrogen corrected apparent metabolisable energy (AMEn) and nutrient retention coefficients when fed to young female turkeys.2. A balancer feed (BF) was formulated to contain 12.39 MJ/kg ME and 269 g/kg crude protein. Ten nutritionally complete, mash diets were prepared by mixing 200 g/kg of each ground field bean cultivar with 800 g/kg of the BF, totalling eleven diets. Diets were fed to female BUT Premium turkeys from 40 to 50 d of age. Each diet was fed to eight raised floor pens, housing two birds, following randomisation. The AMEn was determined by the total collection technique over the last 4 d of the study. Relationships were examined between AMEn, chemical composition and quality variables of the field bean samples.3. The overall determined AMEn value of the beans ranged from 7.72 MJ/kg DM to 9.87 MJ/kg DM, giving an average AMEn of 8.80 MJ/kg DM ( P < 0.05). The soluble non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) content of the beans negatively correlated with their determined AMEn ( r = -0.730; P < 0.05). Bean flour lightness-darkness degree (L*) correlated positively with the AMEn ( r = -0.643; P < 0.05)4. A positive correlation was observed between the degree of yellowness-blueness of bean flour and condensed tannins content ( r = 0.696; P < 0.05). Step-wise regression indicated that soluble NSP + L* of field beans provided explanatory variables suitable for estimating the AMEn value for turkeys (r
2 = 0.737; P < 0.05).- Published
- 2023
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