ArticleTranslational animal science2026
Effects of added folic acid on growth performance, short chain fatty acid concentrations, and serum homocysteine concentrations in nursery pigs.
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Recent research reported an increase in growth performance when feeding supra-nutritional (up to 18 mg/kg) levels of folic acid to weanling pigs. Therefore, two experiments were conducted to validate these responses in typical U.S. nursery pig diets. In Exp. 1, 360 barrows (5.5 ± 0.03 kg) were used in a 38-d study to evaluate the effects of added folic acid (Rovimix Folic Acid, dsm-firmenich, Plainsboro, NJ) with or without pharmacological levels of Zn on growth performance and fecal dry matter (DM). Treatments were arranged in a 3 × 2 factorial with main effects of folic acid (0, 20, or 40 mg/kg) and Zn (3000 mg/kg of Zn in phase 1 and 2000 mg/kg in phase 2 or no Zn other than 110 mg/kg from the trace mineral premix). Diets were corn-soybean meal-based and fed in 2 phases (phase 1 from d 0 to 9 and phase 2 from d 9 to 24). Overall (d 0 to 38), increasing folic acid decreased (quadratic,
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