title: Digestible lysine requirement of starter and grower pigs.
abstract: Three experiments were conducted to determine the digestible lysine requirement of starter (6 kg BW initially) and of grower (21 kg BW initially) pigs. Experiment 1 used 294 starter pigs and lasted 28 d; Exp. 2 used 182 grower pigs and lasted 35 d. Protein and total lysine contents of the basal corn-peanut meal diets were 20 and .8% for Exp. 1 and 16 and .54% for Exp. 2. Basal diets were fortified with five incremental additions of lysine.HCl to provide lysine contents ranging from .8 to 1.3% in Exp. 1, and .54 to .94% in Exp. 2. Diets contained crystalline tryptophan, threonine and isoleucine (Exp. 1 only) to provide dietary concentrations equal to 18, 70 and 60% of the highest lysine level fed. Average daily gain and gain/feed of both starter and grower pigs increased (P less than .05) linearly and quadratically as dietary lysine level increased. For starter pigs, ADG and gain/feed were optimized at 1.1 to 1.2% total lysine. For grower pigs, ADG and gain/feed were optimized at .86% total lysine. In Exp. 3, barrows fitted with an ileal T-cannula were used in a 4 X 4 Latin square design. Basal diets and diets with added lysine were evaluated. Apparent lysine digestibility of the basal starter and grower diets and lysine.HCl were 79.9, 74.1 and 96.7%, respectively. Based on these values and the total lysine contents found to optimize performance, the digestible lysine requirements of starter and grower pigs are 1.03 and .71%, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Anim. Sci., Texas A & M University, College Station 77843.
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Martinez
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Knabe
mesh_terms: D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D004063:Digestion; D004435:Eating; D005260:Female; D008239:Lysine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D013552:Swine / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism; D015430:Weight Gain
chemical_list: D008239:Lysine