07 Jun HP AviStart reduces footpad lesions and improves FCR in all-veg diet
Replacing part of soybean meal (SBM) in starter diets by 5% HP AviStart results in equal performance and lower footpad lesion scores compared to 5% fish meal. With a significant improvement in footpad lesion scores, trial results indicate that HP AviStart is the vegetable protein of choice when feeding broiler chickens all-veg diets.
Objective:
To confirm that HP AviStart is the protein of choice when feeding all-veg diets to broiler chickens in the starter phase.
Results
•HP AviStart results in equally good performance as fish meal, evident by no significant difference in FCR between HP AviStart and fish meal at day 42 (figure 1).
• At day 42, FCR is significantly improved by 3.3-3.9% by feeding 5% HP AviStart in the starter diet compared to alternative vegetable protein sources (figure 1).
• Replacing part of SBM by 5% HP AviStart in starter diets significantly improves the average footpad lesion score by 44.7% (figure 2) compared to SBM (control), also evident in the distribution of chickens on the four footpad lesion scores (table 1).
• HP AviStart significantly improves footpad lesion scores by 21.2%, 22.4% and 41.6% compared to potato protein, fish meal and corn gluten meal, respectively (figure 2).
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