Responses of finisher boars and gilts to dietary lysine and ractopamine
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2009
Conference Title
Twelfth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Pig Science Association
Place of Publication
Cairns
ISBN
978-0-9806880-0-9
ISSN
1324 9177
Keywords
pigs, swine
Disciplines
Animal Sciences | Meat Science
Abstract
The minimum total lysine requirement for pigs between 80 and 120 kg has been reported as 0.65 g/kg (National Research Council, 1998) whilst the current recommended lysine requirements for pigs fed a diet supplemented with ractopamine (RAC) is 0.70 g/kg of total lysine (approximately 0.56 g available lysine/MJ digestible energy (DE)). More recently (Rikard-Bell et al., 2009) reported that the improvements in growth performance elicited by RAC were similar for pigs offered diets with 0.56 or 0.65 g available lysine/MJ DE. The aim of this experiment was to investigate the performance responses of finisher pigs offered a wider range of dietary lysine levels and three levels of dietary RAC.
Recommended Citation
Rikard-Bell, C V,
Pluske, J R,
van Barneveld, R J,
Mullan, B P,
Edwards, A C,
Gannon, N J,
Henman, D J,
and
Dunshea, F R.
(2009), Responses of finisher boars and gilts to dietary lysine and ractopamine, Twelfth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Pig Science Association, Cairns, pp.71-71.
https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/conf_papers/141
