Soybean As Feed Indredient For Livestsock and Poultry
Soybean As Feed Indredient For Livestsock and Poultry
Soybean As Feed Indredient For Livestsock and Poultry
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1. Introduction
The need to meet animal protein demand of ever growing world population, currently at
approximately 6.8 billion (US Census Bureau, 2010), is set to increase at an even greater rate
as the economies of developing countries improve and their growing affluent populace alter
their dietary habits. This means production of soybean, which is used extensively as animal
feed, must increase beyond current production level of about 246 million metric tonnes
(FAS/USDA, 2009).
Soybean (Glycine max, L) is not only a source of high quality edible oil for humans, but also a
high quality vegetable protein in animal feed worldwide. Its universal acceptability in
animal feed has been due to favourable attributes such as relatively high protein content
and suitable amino acid profile except methionine, minimal variation in nutrient content,
ready availability year-round, and relative freedom from intractable anti-nutritive factors if
properly processed. Also, attention has been focused on soybean utilisation as an alternate
protein source in animal diets due to the changing availability or allowed uses of animal
proteins coupled with relatively low cost.
Despite soybean’s pivotal role in animal production, it cannot be fed raw because there
are a number of anti-nutritive factors (ANFs) present that exert a negative impact on the
nutritional quality of the protein. The main ANFs are protease inhibitors (trypsin
inhibitors) and lectins (Liener, 1994), which fortunately can be destroyed by heat
treatment. The trypsin inhibitors cause pancreatic hypertrophy/hyperplasia with
consequent inhibition of growth, while lectins inhibit growth by interfering with nutrient
absorption (Liener, 1994). The elimination of these ANFs and those of less significance can
be achieved through various processing methods. These methods have different impact
on the nutritional quality of the products derived such as full-fat soybeans, soybean meal
and soybean protein concentrates. Of these, soybean meal has been the major ingredient
in both poultry and livestock diets.
This chapter discusses soybean production and consumption, primary soybean products
and their nutritional value for feeding animals, anti-nutritive factors present and ways of
eliminating them, and utilisation in animal feeds as well as future challenges of using
soybeans as a major source of animal feed.
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improve the nutritional value substantially for all classes of animals. Several steps involved
in processing these products can have either positive or negative effect on the quality of the
protein depending on the conditions used in processing. The heat applied in processing is
identified as the single most important factor that affects soybean meal protein quality.
Proper processing conditions such as moisture content, heating time and temperature
inactivate ANFs such as trypsin inhibitors and lectins, which results in improved
performance when fed to monogastric animals (Araba, 1990). High processing temperatures
of oilseeds has deleterious effects on proteins and amino acids due to formation of Maillard
reaction products (Hurell, 1990) or denaturation (Parsons et al., 1992).
Palm
Soybean Canola Cottonseed Peanut Sunflower
kernel
Crude protein 43.0 36.2 39.6 13.2 45.2 32.8
Amino acid
Lysine 90.7 78.6 62.8 58.9 78.1 80.4
Methionine 90.6 88.6 71.9 83.7 85.6 91.2
Cystine 82.1 73.1 70.9 66.6 78.5 79.2
Threonine 84.1 77.6 67.2 69.2 83.8 83.7
Tryptophan 87.9 80.0 80.3 - 75.6 -
Arginine 91.1 90.6 85.3 88.6 89.6 93.1
Isoleucine 91.2 89.0 72.8 81.0 89.3 88.9
Leucine 90.7 94.1 74.8 85.0 89.7 88.7
Valine 88.9 87.8 76.3 80.1 88.9 85.8
Histidine 88.5 88.5 64.1 80.3 85.4 86.1
Phenylalanine 91.6 91.6 84.0 85.3 92.3 90.8
Source: Ajinomoto Heartland Lysine LLC Revision 7 (2006)
Table 3a. True digestibility (%) of essential amino acids in common oilseed meal proteins for
poultry.
figures
2Wiseman and Salvador (1991), 3Ortiz et al. (1998), 4Waldroup et al. (1995), 5Huyghebaert et al. (1988)
Table 4b. Comparison of fatty acid composition of soybean oil with selected dietary fats/oils
(g/kg total fatty acids)1.
shown by increases in concentrations of limiting essential amino acids such as lysine and
methionine for monogastric animals (Table 5). However, the cost of such improved products
may limit their use in animal feeds.
compound feed in the United States (Table 7a) and European Union (Table 7b). The annual
EU livestock consumption alone demands soybean acreage of 5.0 million hectares in Brazil
and 4.2 million hectares in Argentina (Table 7c).
Soybean Soybean
Livestock Acreage Country of Acreage
Equivalent1 Equivalent
product (ha) origin (ha)
(1,000 tonnes) (1,000 tonnes)1
Beef and veal 1,557 595,519 United States 2,102 781,256
Milk 621 237,642 Canada 463 182,290
Pork 10,341 3,956,061 Argentina 11,450 4,240,559
Poultry meat 7,934 3,035,314 Brazil 12,789 4,995,608
Eggs 3,247 1,242,109 Paraguay 585 263,553
Cheese 1,156 442,402 Uruguay 53 26,319
Other
Other products 2,764 1,057,330 180 76,791
countries
Total 27,620 10,566,377 Total 27,621 10,566,377
Source: PROFUNDO (2008) 1,000 tonnes of soybean meal = 771 tonnes of soybeans.
Table 7c. Soybean acreage needed for livestock consumption in the European Union-27 and
by country of origin.
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7. Conclusion
Soybean is the major vegetable protein source in the animal feed industry. Its universal
acceptability in animal feed is as a result of important attributes such as relatively high
protein content and suitable amino acid profile except methionine, minimal variation in
nutrient content, ready availability year-round, and relative freedom from intractable anti-
nutritive factors if properly processed, limited allowable uses of animal proteins in feed and
its relatively low cost. Therefore, its production and consumption will continue to grow as a
preferred source of alternate high quality protein in animal diets.
Commonly used soybean products as protein source in animal feed are soybean meal, full-
fat soybean and soybean protein concentrates, which are obtained through various heat
processing methods that reduce anti-nutritive factors present such as trypsin inhibitors and
lectins. Of these products, soybean meal is most preferred due to its relatively low cost. It is
used extensively in feeds for poultry, pigs and cattle.
Soybean is also a major source of vegetable fat in animal feed. Feed-grade soybean oil is
popularly used in high energy diets, particularly for poultry, because of its high digestibility
and metabolisable energy content compared with other vegetable fats/oils.
Soybean production and utilization for animal feed is bound to face future challenges as a
result of increased demand of vegetable oil for biofuel production; of which soybean is less
competitive. There is also increased research to use co-products from biofuel production as
substitutes for soybean meal in animal diets. Thus, there is a need to overcome these and
other challenges in order not to jeopardise cheap meat production for ever increasing world
population.
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