ArticleTranslational animal science2025
Optimizing diets for finishing pigs: balancing ideal protein to enhance growth performance and reduce environmental impacts.
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- Dietary arginine-to-lysine ratio influences nutrient digestibility during early growth without affecting growth performance in growing-finishing pigs.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
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To investigate the performance of pigs offered diets with reduced crude protein (CP), but supplying ideal protein with different limiting amino acids (AAs), 280 pigs (PIC 337 × (Landrace × Large White)) were randomly allocated to 1 of 4 treatments (with 7 pen replicates per treatment) balanced for weight and sex. The pigs were penned in mixed-sex (5 females and 5 males) pen groups of 10 and offered treatment diets from 12 wk of age (≈40 kg liveweight) to slaughter (≈112 kg liveweight). The control diet had 175 g/kg CP formulated to contain ideal protein to lysine (Lys), methionine (Met), and threonine (Thr) and the remaining 3 diets contained 150 g/kg CP. Ideal diet 1 had ideal protein to Lys, Met, Thr, tryptophan (Trp), valine (Val), isoleucine (Ile) and arginine (Arg). Ideal diet 2 had ideal protein to Lys, Met, Thr and Trp, and Ideal diet 3 had ideal protein to Lys, Met and Thr. All diets had 13.85 MJ/kg of digestible energy. Feed intake, average daily gain (ADG), and feed conversion ratio (FCR) were measured. ADG was higher (
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