By Marc Decoux, executive manager, Poultry Applied Solutions, Novus International, USA
Protease enzymes are an important factor in protein digestion as they hydrolyse the less digestible proteins in animal feeds and break them down into more usable peptides. Improving dietary protein digestibility with a quality protease can reduce feed cost by allowing the use of lower crude protein feedstuffs with lesser quality amino acids, effectively lowering protein and digestible amino acids levels required from the feedstuffs up to 10%