Amino acids in swine nutrition Technical Articles
Article published the November 24, 2021:
INTRODUCTIONFarm animals are raised to produce commodities such as meat, dairy products, and fiber. Energy, amino acids (AA), minerals, vitamins, and water are used by animals for body maintenance, growth, repr...
Article published the October 20, 2021:
IntroductionIn practice, an optimisation program is used to formulate commercial diets to meet the minimum nutrient constraints in order to minimise feed costs. With phytase, potentially unjustifiable high cont...
Article published the October 14, 2021:
Article published the August 26, 2021:
IntroductionNursery pig diets have been conventionally formulated with animal protein sources and dairy products (e.g., fish meal, plasma meal, and whey protein). However, this has resulted in a complex&nb...
Article published the August 23, 2021:
INTRODUCTIONSow productivity has increased considerably in recent years, mainly owing to an increase in litter size, which has resulted in an increased metabolic demand for nutrients to support fetal growth and...
Article published the July 8, 2021:
Article published the June 1, 2021:
INTRODUCTIONBesides genetic improvement, there are several factors that influence performance and carcass traits of pigs and among them is the amino acid requirement. To obtain high muscle protein deposition ra...
Article published the March 11, 2021:
Functional amino acid supplementation during disease challenge enhances growth performance and immune status. The present study investigated the effect of duration of adaptation period to a functional amino aci...
Article published the March 11, 2021:
The objective of this experiment was to determine the effects of dietary crude protein (CP) content and crystalline amino acids (CAA) supplementation patterns on the growth performance of weaned pigs under clea...
Article published the March 11, 2021:
A study was conducted to evaluate the effects of replacing corn by full-fat rice bran (FFRB) on performance and meat quality characteristics of growing-finishing pigs. A total of 728 pigs [Duroc x (Yorkshire x ...