ArticleTranslational animal science2019
The impact of "super-dosing" phytase in pig diets on growth performance during the nursery and grow-out periods.
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- Phytase Overdose in Diets for Pigs from Weaning to Slaughter: Effects on Performance, Carcass and Meat Quality.Veterinary sciences · 2026Article
- Effects of dietary supplementation of Escherichia coli 6-phytase levels on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, and blood inositol in weanling piglets.Animal bioscience · 2026Article
- Evaluating the Effects of Strategic Use of High Phytase Levels on Growth Performance and Carcass Characteristics of Late-Finishing Pigs Exposed to Limited Floor Space.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- The positive effects of super-dosing phytase on the growth performance of growing pigs are mainly due to increased dietary digestible phosphorus.Journal of animal science · 2025Article
- Amino acid and mineral digestibility, bone ash, and plasma inositol is increased by including microbial phytase in diets for growing pigs.Journal of animal science and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Phytase Supplementation of Growing-Finishing Pig Diets with Extruded Soya Seeds and Rapeseed Meal Improves Bone Mineralization and Carcass and Meat Quality.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Microbial Phytase in a Diet with Lupine and Extruded Full-Fat Soya Seeds Affects the Performance, Carcass Characteristics, Meat Quality, and Bone Mineralization of Fatteners.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Efficacy of a bacterial 6-phytase supplemented beyond traditional dose levels on jejunal mucosa-associated microbiota, ileal nutrient digestibility, bone parameters, and intestinal health, and growth performance of nursery pigs.Journal of animal science · 2023Article
- Nutritional and Functional Roles of Phytase and Xylanase Enhancing the Intestinal Health and Growth of Nursery Pigs and Broiler Chickens.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- Apparent digestibility of energy and nutrients and efficiency of microbial phytase is influenced by body weight of pigs.Journal of animal science · 2022Article
- Increasing Doses of Bacterial Phytase (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Increased microbial phytase increased phytate destruction, plasma inositol, and feed efficiency of weanling pigs, but reduced dietary calcium and phosphorus did not affect gastric pH or fecal score and reduced growth performance and bone ash.Journal of animal science · 2021Article
- Supplementation of protease to low amino acid diets containing superdose level of phytase for wean-to-finish pigs: effects on performance, postweaning intestinal health and carcass characteristics.Translational animal science · 2021Article
- Intestinal Health of Pigs Upon Weaning: Challenges and Nutritional Intervention.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2021Review
- Effect of high-phytase supplementation in lactation diets on sow and litter performance.Translational animal science · 2021Article
- A Novel Corn-Expressed Phytase Improves Daily Weight Gain, Protein Efficiency Ratio and Nutrients Digestibility and Alters Fecal Microbiota in Pigs Fed with Very Low Protein Diets.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Assessing current phytase release values for calcium, phosphorus, amino acids, and energy in diets for growing-finishing pigsTranslational animal science · 2020Article
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Abstract
Previous research indicates that "super-dosing" phytase may improve pig growth performance by improved nutrient use, although the benefits appear to be more consistent in nursery than in grow-out pigs. Therefore, two experiments were conducted to determine if performance could be improved by feeding phytase at super-dosed levels, and whether this response would be different if energy and amino acid (AA) were limiting. Experiment 1 involved 440 weaned pigs (6.27 ± 0.01 kg) in a factorial arrangement of treatments comparing the main effects of diet (positive control [PC] balanced for all nutrients vs. a negative control [NC]: 10% lower standardized ileal digestible (SID) lysine with relative reduction of all other essential AA and 1% reduced fat) and phytase levels (0 vs. 2,500 FTU Quantum Blue 5G phytase/kg). Pigs were assigned to pen according to a randomized complete block design based on body weight (BW). Feed and water were provided ad libitum across four dietary phases: 3 × 1 wk plus 1 × 2 wk. The average daily gain (ADG) and gain to feed ratio (G:F) were improved in the PC relative to the NC (
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