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Amino acid and energy interactions in growing pigs 1. Effects of food intake, sex and live weight on the responses of growing pigs to lysine concentration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

E. S. Batterham ,
L. R. Giles  and
E. Belinda Dettmann
E. S. Batterham
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Centre, Wollongbar, New South Wales 2480, Australia
L. R. Giles
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Centre, Wollongbar, New South Wales 2480, Australia
E. Belinda Dettmann
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Centre, Wollongbar, New South Wales 2480, Australia
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Abstract

The responses of growing pigs to dietary lysine concentration, as influenced by food intake, sex (intact males and females) and live weight were investigated in a 4 x 2 x 2 x 2 factorial experiment involving 128 Large White pigs. Lysine concentrations were 7, 8, 9 and 10 g/kg air-dry food. The basal wheat-soya bean meal diet (14·0 MJ digestible energy per kg) was offered either ad libitum or on a restricted feeding scale to pigs from 20 to 85 kg live weight. During the 50 to 85 kg growth phase, the effects of proportionately reducing the lysine concentrations by 0·2 were investigated. Performance response was assessed in two ways; by analysis of variance for the 20 to 50, 50 to 85 and 20 to 85 kg phases, and by response surface analyses of data from successive 10-kg weight intervals.

An initial analysis of variance indicated that food intake (of pigs fed ad libitum), daily gain and food conversion ratio varied with lysine concentration, but that the responses differed with food intake, sex and phase of growth.

Analysis of the response surfaces delineated by lysine level and phase of growth indicated that for males and females with restricted food and males fed ad libitum, maximum daily gain was produced by feeding at least 10 g lysine per kg, declining to about 8 g/kg at 80 kg. With females fed ad libitum, maximum daily gain was obtained by feeding 9·9 g lysine per kg at 20 kg, declining to less than 5·6 g/kg at 75 kg.

Carcass characteristics were largely unaffected by lysine concentration.

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Animal Production , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , April 1985 , pp. 331 - 343
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1985

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