Australian Chicken Meat Industry Sustainability Framework
Message from the Australian Chicken Meat Federation Chief Executive Officer, Mary Wu The industry is proud to deliver the inaugural Australian Chicken Meat Industry Sustainability...
CHICKEN MEAT
Available Phosphorus Requirement of Meat Chickens
66 pages
Published: 12 Jul 2017
Author(s): Li, Xiuhua, Zhang, Dagong, Huang, Kim H., Bryden, Wayne
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The need to supplement poultry diets with phosphorus has been recognised for many decades.
This report provides essential information for nutritionists to formulate diets to meet phosphorus requirements and reduce dietary supplementation with inorganic phosphorus.
This will in turn, decrease the phosphorus output in manure, lower pollution associated with intensive animal production and increase industry profitability through savings in feed costs.
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