Digestibility of animal and vegetable protein ingredients by pirarucu juveniles, Arapaima gigas

ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to determine the apparent digestibility coefficients of energy, protein, and amino acids in protein ingredients by pirarucu juveniles. A test was conducted with six protein ingredients: meat and bone meal, fish meal, hydrolyzed feather meal, poultry by-product meal, soybean meal, and corn gluten meal. Three repetitions were used for each tested ingredient. A reference feed was used with 430 g kg−1 crude protein and 19.63 kJ g−1 gross energy. The test feeds consisted of the replacement of 30% of the reference feeds with the test ingredients. Chromium oxide was added to the feeds at 1 g kg−1 as an external marker. Eighteen juveniles with an average weight of 235±36 g were used. The best apparent digestibility coefficients of protein were found for fish meal, followed by the poultry by-product meal and meat and bone meal. However, except for gluten, all the tested ingredients presented protein digestibilities above 0.70. The crude energy apparent digestibility coefficient was higher for animal ingredients, above 0.75, than for vegetable ingredients, which presented values below 0.60. Pirarucu efficiently uses the protein from the tested ingredients, regardless of origin. However, it has a preferential ability to use the energy from animal ingredients.

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Main Authors:	Cipriano,Filipe dos Santos, Lima,Kauana Santos de, Souza,Ricardo Henrique Bastos de, Tonini,William Cristiane Teles, Passinato,Érica Bevitório, Braga,Luís Gustavo Tavares
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia 2016
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982016001000581
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