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Article: Nonruminant Nutrition: Finishing Pigs - Additives & Energy
- Article from:
- Journal of Dairy Science
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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85 Effect of L-lysine-HC1 addition in late finishing gilts fed ractopamine HC1 (Paylean®). B. W. Ratliff*1, A. M. Gaines1, P. Srichana1, G. L. Allee1, and J. L. Usry2, 1 University of Missouri, Columbia, 2 Ajinomoto Heartland LLC, Chicago, IL.
The objective of this 21 d experiment was to evaluate the effect of L-lysine-HC1 addition on growth performance of pigs fed ractopamine HC1 (Paylean®). A total of 966 gilts (TR-4 à C22; 98.2 ± 0.2 kg) were randomly allotted to one of six dietary treatments with seven replicate pens/treatment and 23 pigs/pen. Dietary treatments included five levels of L-lysine-HC1 that corresponded to concentrations of 0.10, 0.20, 0.30, 0.40, and 0.50% lysine, ...