1. Increasing Tryptophan.
- Author
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Goncalves, Marcio and Goodband, Bob
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SWINE nutrition , *TRYPTOPHAN in animal nutrition , *LYSINE in animal nutrition , *ANIMAL feeds , *CHARTS, diagrams, etc. - Abstract
The article reports on the use of tryptophan in diets for nursery and growing-finishing pigs. Topics include approach of using a tryptophan to lysine ratio for diet formulation, a study at Kansas State University regarding effect of varying tryptophan to lysine ratio on pigs, and improvement in growth performance observed by feeding pigs with diet having high tryptophan to lysine ratio. Several charts and graphs regarding the same are also presented.
- Published
- 2014