Effect of Various Dietary Arginine: Lysine Ratios on Performance, Carcass Composition, and Plasma Amino Acid Concentrations of Growing-Finishing Swine
- Anderson, L. C.
- Lewis, A. J.
- Peo, Jr., E. R.
- Crenshaw, J. D.
Publication date
January 1984
DOI Publisher
DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln ISSN
0021-8812 Language
English Citation count (estimate)
16Abstract
Crossbred growing-finishing pigs (112 barrows, 48 gilts) were used to determine the effect of reducing excess dietary arginine, through feedstuff variation, on performance, carcass composition and plasma amino acid concentrations. Diets contained five, four, three or two times the NRC requirement for arginine. Lysine in all diets was formulated to be equal to NRC requirements, and all diets contained at least 100% of the NRC recommendations for all other essential amino acids
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