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AMINOChick® 3.0 – updated amino acid recommendation tool for broilers with additional features
Author: Dr. Andreas Lemme, Evonik Operations GmbH, Nutrition & Care
Key Information
- AMINOChick® 3.0 is an online tool providing recommendations for standardized ileal digestible (SID) essential amino acids, which can be adjusted to various production conditions. As new addition to previous recommendations,
- AMINOChick® 3.0 provides recommendations for SID glycine equivalents (SID Gly + 0.714 x SID Ser)
- AMINOChick® 3.0 suggests creatine requirement and recommends respective supplementation of guanidinoacetic acid
- AMINOChick® 3.0 allows to adjust amino acid recommendations to phase feeding programs, sex of birds, dietary energy level, physical feed quality. As new addition to previous recommendations,
- AMINOChick® 3.0 allows to adjust amino acid recommendations to various production objectives.
- AMINOChick® allows adjustment of amino acid recommendations to target body weight.
- AMINOChick® 3.0 provides amino acid recommendations for concentrates in case of blending with whole grains.
- AMINOChick® 3.0 includes a feature which helps the user to adjust specifications of sulfur containing amino acids according to the perception of the nutritional value of methionine sources.
- Scenarios calculated with AMINOChick® 3.0 can be saved and compared with others.