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Long-Term Effects Of Dietary Copper Source And Level On Performance And Health Of Sows And Piglets, Ning Lu
Long-Term Effects Of Dietary Copper Source And Level On Performance And Health Of Sows And Piglets, Ning Lu
Theses and Dissertations--Animal and Food Sciences
The objectives of this study were to investigate the long-term effects of feeding increasing supplemental levels (20, 120, or 220 mg/kg) of dietary copper (Cu) as tribasic copper chloride (TBCC) or copper sulfate (CuSO4) on performance, antioxidant status, nutrient digestibility, and trace mineral deposition of sows and piglets; as well as to assess nursery dietary Cu levels on growth performance and response to immunological challenge in nursery pigs from sows fed either high or low Cu diets. In the long-term sow experiment, sows fed TBCC diets had greater adjusted weaning weight for litter and piglet (P < 0.10), as well as adjusted litter and piglet weight gain (P …
Evaluation Of L-Methionine Bioavailability In Nursery Pigs, Jina Lim
Evaluation Of L-Methionine Bioavailability In Nursery Pigs, Jina Lim
Theses and Dissertations--Animal and Food Sciences
DL-Methionine (Met) has been conventionally used in swine diets with assumption of similar bioefficacy with L-Met. However, because L-Met is the form that is utilized by animals for protein synthesis, L-Met could, theoretically, be more available. Four experiments were conducted to evaluate L-Met bioavailability in nursery pigs with 21-day growth trials. A total of 105,105,112 and 84 crossbred pigs were used in Exp. 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively. Each experiment had a low Met basal diet and 3 levels of the Met sources (DL-Met and L-Met). In addition to the basal diet, supplementation levels were 0.053%, 0.107% and 0.160% …