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Success with ExPress Formulation for Broilers – Straight from the Source

The ExPress® process, powered by Insta-Pro International’s equipment and expertise, stands out for producing highly nutritious soy meal. Our team of engineers and nutritionists are confident in our decades of research and development, but it can be important to highlight the root of our testimonies, that of the independent studies that back up our claims. We’ve compiled key findings from scientific articles over the years to illustrate how our technology can be applied to optimize your poultry diet formulations:

1. Effects of Extrusion and Expelling on the Nutritional Quality of Conventional and Kunitz Trypsin Inhibitor-Free Soybeans by Ye Zhang, Carl M. Parsons, Karl E. Weingartner, Wilmot B. Wijeratne

• This study identified that dry extrusion of soybeans at higher temperatures resulted in better quality soy meal for broilers. As dry extrusion temperature increased, growth performance increased, amino acid digestibility was improved, and metabolizable energy content increased, even though residual oil in the meal declined.

1. Chemical composition and nutritional quality of soybean meals prepared by extruder/expeller processing for use in poultry diets by Lisa K. Karr-Lilienthal, Laura L. Bauer, Pam L. Utterback, Krista E. Zinn, Rodney L. Frazier, Carl M. Parsons, George C. Fahey Jr

• This study, also with broiler chickens, showed that dry extrusion with temperatures as high as 165℃ did not diminish amino acid digestibility. In fact, at the highest processing temperatures, amino acid digestibilities were maximized, and certain indicators of processing quality, such as KOH solubility, were shown to be of no value with the ExPress® Finally, this study obtained samples of ExPress® soy meal from the field and found that variation in product quality existed; so, understanding meal quality at each processing plant is important.

1. Standardized ileal amino acid digestibility in dry-extruded expelled soybean meal, extruded canola seed-pea, feather meal, and poultry by-product meal for broiler chickens by Bandegan, E. Kiarie, R. L. Payne, G. H. Crow, W. Guenter, C. M. Nyachoti

• ExPress® meal in broilers contained highly digestible amino acids for broilers when compared to other common ingredients, including other extruded ingredients.

1. Growth performance of male broilers fed ExPress Soybean meal and high-shear dry extruded corn by M. M. Meyer, E. A. Bobeck

• Broilers fed ExPress® soy meal exhibited improved feed conversion ratio and grew faster than those fed commodity, solvent-extracted soybean meal.

ExPress® Formulation Summary:

• Improved amino acid digestibility may reduce or remove common synthetic amino acids, like L-lysine and DL-methionine.
• Higher metabolizable energy almost always allows additional fats and oils, like AV blend and veg oils, to be reduced or removed. Often, these formulation changes will reduce total diet costs.
• Even with reduced diet costs, performance gains are often also noted when ExPress® soy meal is used in poultry diets.

Please work with us on your specific formulation situation and better understand why you should formulate with ExPress® soy meal.