Nutritional value and use of distiller's dried grains with solubles in the feeding of poultry

Recently, policies encouraging the production of fuel ethanol have resulted in an enormous increase in the production of new generation distillers dried grains with solubles (NG-DDGS). New generation distillers dried grains with solubles refers to DDGS from modern non-beverage fuel ethanol plants, which exclusively use corn in the fermentation process. The present studies were conducted to evaluate the use of NG-DDGS in poultry diets and to determine the lysine and phosphorus bioavailability of NG-DDGS. Based on the data, 6% NG-DDGS can safely be used in starter broiler diets, and can be increased to a 12% level during the grower and finisher periods. Six to 8% NG-DDGS can be fed in layer diets during peak production, and once body weight and feed intake have stabilized the NG-DDGS level can be increased to 10 or 12%. The lysine and phosphorus availability of NG- DDGS was estimated to be 80% and 61%, respectively.