Assessment of Meat Quality and Shelf Life from Broilers Fed with Different Sources and Concentrations of Methionine

Table 1

Feeding composition of the basal diet.

	0–10 d	11–22 d	23–35 d
Diet composition
Corn (%)	46.3	58.63	58.67
Soybean meal, 48% CP	26.81	24.80	20.89
Peas (%)	10.00	5.19	10.00
Corn gluten meal, 60% CP (%)	8.87	3.66	2.40
Soybean oil (%)	3.09	3.31	4.24
Monocalcium phosphate (%)	1.71	1.54	1.23
Limestone (CaCO3) (%)	1.64	1.35	4.24
Premix blank poultry (%)	0.50	0.50	0.50
L-Lysine (%)	0.37	0.28	0.23
Sodium bicarbonate (%)	0.24	0.22	0.00
Salt (NaCl) (%)	0.18	0.21	0.35
Choline chloride, 60%	0.15	0.13	0.15
ThreAMINO®	0.08	0.09	0.08
ValAMINO (L-valine)	0.05	0.07	0.07
L-Isoleucine	0.00	0.00	0.03
Nutrient composition (%)
Crude protein	24.26	20.00	18.15
AMEn (MJ/kg)	12.70	12.97	13.31
AMEn (kcal/kg)	3.035	3.100	3.180
SID Lys	1.29	1.10	1.00
SID Met	0.34	0.27	0.24
SID Cys	0.30	0.26	0.23
SID M + C	0.64	0.53	0.47
SID Thr	0.82	0.71	0.65
SID Trp	0.21	0.18	0.16
SID Arg	1.32	1.14	1.05
SID Ile	0.91	0.76	0.71
SID Leu	2.17	1.67	1.47
SID Val	1.02	0.88	0.80