scholarly journals Sulphur amino acid requirements of piglets and growing pigs

1987 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-313
Author(s):  
Ewa BOROWA ◽  
J. LOUGNON ◽  
T. KIENER
2007 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 070619032309005-???
Author(s):  
J. Heger ◽  
L. Křížová ◽  
M. Šustala ◽  
S. Nitrayová ◽  
P. Patráš ◽  
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1986 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. T. Yen ◽  
D. J. A. Cole ◽  
D. Lewis

ABSTRACTThe response to dietary lysine when provided as part of an ideal protein was examined in pigs over the range of live weight from 50 to 90 kg. Ninety-six pigs, 32 trios of littermate boars, castrated males and gilts were allocated to eight diets with lysine concentrations of 5·6, 6·2, 7·3, 8·3, 9·3, 10·3, 11·4 and 12·4 g/kg diet and corresponding concentrations of crude protein (CP) from 90 to 186 g/kg diet (all having a digestible energy of 13·38 MJ/kg). Pigs were given food on a restricted scale once daily. With increasing lysine concentration, there was a linear response (followed by a plateau) for growth and carcass characteristics up to dietary lysine concentrations of 91, 7·2 and 8·4 g/kg diet and CP concentrations of 142, 116 and 132 g/kg diet with daily lysine intakes of 22·9, 18·6 and 21·2 g and CP intakes of 357, 290 and 331 g for boars, castrated males and gilts respectively.


1995 ◽  
Vol 1995 ◽  
pp. 38-38
Author(s):  
P.H. Simmins ◽  
J.C. Bodin ◽  
A. Kies ◽  
P.E.V. Williams

The efficient production of the weaner pig requires accurate knowledge of its amino acid requirements. This is particularly relevant today as it is increasingly important to reduce nitrogenous waste from pigs. During the past decade formulations for feeds were based on the ideal protein profile of the lean tissue of pigs in which the sulphur amino acid requirements were assessed as the combination of total sulphur amino acids rather than through their individual amino acids, methionine and cystine (Agricultural Research Council, 1981). Today, this concept is challenged. The effect of the changing cystine demand in the weaner pig on the total ileal digestible sulphur amino acid (IDSAA) requirements and hence methionine levels requires study. The objective of this experiment was to understand the requirements and relationship between true ileal digestible cystine and methionine to lysine ratio in the ideal protein content of food to achieve efficient production in the young pig.


2021 ◽  
Vol 99 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 16-16
Author(s):  
Robert D Goodband

Abstract I was very fortunate to meet Gary Allee in 1984 when I began my M.S. degree at Kansas State University. I’ll remember Gary most in that he cared about people and truly wanted to serve humanity and make the world a better place through animal agriculture. He helped develop scholars, both nationally and internationally, that would be the future of our industry. Gary was proficient in seeking a solution to a problem and finding the experimental resources to explain it. Very early in his career, he helped verify the concept of a lysine:calorie ratio as a means of explaining the previously varied and inconsistent response to added fat in swine diets. Early research outlined the order of limiting amino acids in various feed ingredients. Gary’s research also focused on determining the nutritional value of protein sources for weanling pigs, such as dried whey, fish meal and dried skim milk that ultimately led to phase feeding strategies for early weaned pigs that are the backbone of our industry. Gary and his students determined lysine and other amino acid requirements for growing pigs and sows under field conditions. He helped elucidate the effects of low-protein, amino acid fortified diets under heat stress environments. As market weights increased, his research was instrumental in determining how to feed heavy weight pigs as well as those fed ractopamine. Gary grasped concepts and applied them into practical solutions in swine nutrition. He was a strong believer and leader in cooperative research among universities but also, at that time, a novel concept of university-industry partnerships. Those of us that can say they knew Gary Allee, are very fortunate and better because of it.


2001 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.T. Whittemore ◽  
D.M. Green ◽  
P.W. Knap

AbstractA review of work reported in the literature was used to present quantitative descriptions of protein use in the growing pig. These are detailed in the text, which also points to preferred values, and to anomalies and lacunae. The review was prepared with the objective of allowing from its content the inclusive and quantitative modelling of amino acid requirement. Requirement was approached as the sum of the component factors: maintenance and protein retention. Ileal true digestible protein and amino acid requirements are presented in a form consistent with that forwarded for energy. Thus both energy and protein elements can be conceptualized within a single coherent framework. Priority uses for absorbed amino acids were assumed to be (a) to support endogenous protein losses resultant from the passage of food and incomplete re-absorption prior to the terminal ileum, (b) to replace lost hair and skin, and (c) to cover the basic maintenance losses which will occur as a result of minimal protein turn-over even when protein retention is zero. The bulk of the protein requirement was directly linked to the daily rate of protein retention, for which the linear-plateau response was accepted. For determination of the maximum rate of protein retention the Gompertz function was proposed, although the use of a single value throughout the growth period was not dismissed. The balance of amino acids for protein retention is specified as different from that for maintenance. Central to the approach was the proposal that the inefficiency of use of ileal digested ideal protein, even when not supplied in excess, was an expression of protein losses occurring as a result of protein turn-over. The requirement for the satisfaction of the losses from protein turn-over occurring as a consequence of protein retention, and therefore additional to the requirements for maintenance, was identified. Quantification was attempted with sufficient success to warrant its inclusion into requirement estimation. It was concluded that this element addressed previously inadequately explained protein utilization inefficiencies. Algorithms are presented based upon protein turn-over which appear to be consistent with empirical findings.


1991 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. V. Bradford ◽  
R. M. Gous

ABSTRACTTwo experiments are reported in which a comparison was made of phase feeding and choice feeding as methods of meeting the changing amino acid requirements of growing pigs. In the first experiment, three feeding strategies were used: a system in which a single food (165 g protein per kg food) was offered throughout the growth period; a phase-feeding system, using five different treatments; and three choice-feeding treatments, in which the two diets offered differed only in their protein concentrations. The second experiment consisted of six treatments, three of which constituted a single feeding system, being a high, a medium, (the control) and a low protein food (240, 165 and 100 g protein per kg); there were two phase-feeding treatments, of three and five phases; and one treatment in which a choice was offered of the high and the low protein foods. In both experiments, group data were collected on Landrace × Large White pigs, sexes separate, during the growing period (30 to 90 kg). All pigs were weighed weekly, as was the amount of food consumed in each pen of 10 animals. Phase feeding improved food conversion efficiency (+4·4 g/kg) and caused a decline in both food intake (−45·3 g) and P2 backfat thickness (−0·4 mm) with each increment in the number of phases used. Results of the choice feeding treatments were not statistically significantly different from either the control or the phase feeding treatments. The intake of dietary protein was higher in the choice treatments than in the control (420 v. 370 g in experiment 1 and 345 v. 334 g in experiment 2). Where the two foods on offer differed only in protein content, pigs reduced the proportion of high protein food in the combination chosen by 0037 and 0·059 per week in the two experiments respectively, these linear trends being statistically highly significant. They were less successful in differentiating between the high protein food and maize, the proportion of high protein food chosen decreasing at a statistically significant rate of 0018 per week, but where the maize had not been supplemented with vitamins and minerals there was no significant trend in the way in which the pigs selected their diet, demonstrating the importance of the correct design of the two foods on offer in a choice-feeding programme.


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