Effect of Various Dietary Arginine: Lysine Ratios on Performance, Carcass Composition, and Plasma Amino Acid Concentrations of Growing-Finishing Swine

Authors

L. C. Anderson, Golden Sun Feeds Inc.
A. J. Lewis, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
E. R. Peo, Jr., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
J. D. Crenshaw, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1984

Comments

Published in JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE 58 (1984), pp. 362-368. Copyright © 1984 American Society of Animal Science. Used by permission.

Abstract

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.