Do you really know what your broilers digest?

Balancing nutritional precision with field performance is a daily challenge. While formulation tools like NIR are essential to control raw material quality, they stop at the feed mill. But what happens when the feed reaches the animal? 

Formulated energy is not always digested energy. And until now, there was no easy way to measure digestibility in real farm conditions.
Adisseo now brings clarity to this invisible part of precision nutrition.

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Key benefits

Turn digestibility into a decision tool
Turn digestibility into a decision tool

Use real AME values to adjust formulations, validate feed strategies, and support data-driven nutrition decisions with confidence.

Detect and explain performance gaps
Detect and explain performance gaps

Understand why similar diets lead to different results by revealing variations in feed digestion across farms, houses, or bird types.

Save time and cost
Save time and cost

Get reliable digestibility data in just 24 hours no need for costly, complex or time-consuming animal trials.

 

 

 

Curious to see how these benefits translate into your daily work?

Digestion remains a blind spot in poultry production

In reality, diet formulation is only the first step. Once the feed is processed, transported, and consumed by the animal, many other factors come into play: particle size, heat treatment, interactions between ingredients, bird condition, age, gut health, environment all of them can influence digestibility.

And yet, today’s industry lacks practical tools to verify how feed is actually digested under real-life field conditions. The gold standard (in vivo digestibility trials) are costly, time-consuming, and rarely feasible on commercial farms. This creates a critical gap between what is formulated and what is truly utilized by the bird.

Nutritionists are left with performance indicators that come too late, without being able to pinpoint whether digestion was a limiting factor.

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A new way to see what happens after formulation

Even with the most precise formulation, nutritionists often face a critical question: what is actually being digested by the animal on the farm? Between raw material variability, feed processing, and on-farm conditions, a gap often appears between what’s formulated on paper and what birds really utilize.

To close that gap, Adisseo has developed a science-based solution to assess the digestible energy (AME) of broiler diets directly in the field using a method that is quick, reliable, and based on your own farm data: Feed Digestibility Check.

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This approach provides nutritionists with actionable insights across three essential areas:

Make digestibility measurable — On Your Farm

Until now, digestibility has remained out of reach in routine practice — too slow, too complex, or too expensive to measure regularly.
With a simple protocol involving feed and feces sampling, followed by rapid NIR analysis through the PNE platform, you can now:

  • Obtain accurate AME values within 24 hours
  • Evaluate energy digestibility in real production settings
  • Integrate digestion into your daily monitoring tools

This turns a long-standing blind spot into something visible, repeatable, and comparable.

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Feed Digestibility Check is now available in your PNE account.

Validate AME values, compare digestibility, or test new ingredients directly online.
If don’t have a PNE account? Contact your local Adisseo representative..

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Feed Digestibility Check Leaflet
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Download our specific leaflet to learn how Feed Digestibility Check works, how to interpret results, and how to run the check directly in your poultry house with our NIR-based PNE service.

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