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The nutritional value of normal and high lysine corns for weanling and growing finishing swine when fed at four lysine levels

Asche, G.L.

The nutritional value of normal and high lysine corns for weanling and growing finishing swine when fed at four lysine levels - 1985 - Printed

Peer-review: Yes - Open Access: Yes|http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&ISSN=0021-8812

Weanling pigs, 192 from 2 separate trials, initial weight 6.0 and 5.6 kg, and 400 growing finishing pigs, initial weight 17 kg, were fed on normal and high lysine maize diets containing 4 levels of lysine in a 2 X 4 factorial arrangement. Crossbred (Large White X Landrace X Duroc) pigs were used in all experiments. All diets were balanced on a lysine basis. The results indicated that weanling and growing finishing pig performance and final carcass composition were similar for pigs fed on normal or high lysine maize diets balanced on a lysine basis. Weanling pigs from 5 to 14 kg required at least 1.10% lysine. Based on changes in bodyweight gain and feed


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Animal feeding
Feeds
Lysine
Nutritive value
Organic compounds
Plant nutrition
Swine
Zea mays

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