LEVELS OF LYSINE AND DIGESTIBLE ENERGY TO GROWING/FINISHING SWINE RECEIVING PEARL MILLET GRAIN (Pennisetum americanum L. LEEKE) BASED-RATIONS

• Autor(a) principal: Stringhini, José Henrique
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: França, Aldi Fernandes de Souza, Nunes, Romão da Cunha, Bandeira, Márcia Nunes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropical (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufg.br/pat/article/view/2969
• topic: Swine; lysine; digestible energy; pearl millet; Suínos; lisina; energia digestível; milheto

In this experiment, 20 crossbred Agroceres-PIC swine were fed with growing and finishing rations containing pearl millet grain with two levels of digestible energy (3,300 e 3,500 kcal ED/kg) and two levels of lysine (according to Rostagno et al, 1994 and 10% above this recommendation). The pigs were alloted in a completely randomized design with four treatments and five replications in a factorial scheme 2x2. The lysine supplementation increased the performance parameters studied, specially feed intake and feed to gain ratio, but no effects were observed in body weight gain, carcass length and backfat thickness. The energy levels tested didn’t affect any of the parameters studied. Then, the use of pearl millet in swine growing/finishing rations with lysine supplementation was positively affected. KEY-WORDS: Swine; lysine; digestible energy; pearl millet.