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Effect of phase feeding diets declining in digestible Lysine: digestible energy (DE) compared to a single diet throughout the growing-finishing period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

M.K. O’Connell ,
P.B. Lynch  and
J.V. O’Doherty
M.K. O’Connell*
Affiliation:
Pig Production Department, Teagasc, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland Faculty of Agriculture, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland 4
P.B. Lynch
Affiliation:
Pig Production Department, Teagasc, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland
J.V. O’Doherty
Affiliation:
Faculty of Agriculture, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland 4
*
E-mail: koconnell@moorepark.teagasc.ie
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As pigs mature their requirements for amino acids decline. Phase feeding a series of diets of reducing protein and amino acid content has the potential to increase growth rate and improve feed conversion efficiency because less surplus nitrogen (N) is excreted. In addition, phase feeding is expected to reduce the amount of N excreted in the manure. This experiment was carried out to assess the response of group penned growing-finishing pigs to feeding a single diet throughout or a sequence of five diets of high, medium or low amino acid content.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2004 , 2004 , pp. 14
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2004

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