Ácido guanidinoacético para leitões

• Autor(a) principal: Teixeira, Karla Andrade
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6078
• topic: Arginina; Creatina; Desempenho; Suínos; Suplementação; Arginine; Creatine; Performance; Pigs; Supplementation; ZOOTECNIA::PRODUCAO ANIMAL

In the search for improved animal performance, has been testing new substances and new products to be used as additives in feed. Creatine and their precursors are examples of such compounds used for improvement of animal productivity. The guanidinoacetic acid is a natural precursor of creatine that has been studied in order to verify their effects on animal performance. With the objective of verify whether supplementation of guanidinoacetic acid in diets could help save the arginine used for the synthesis of creatine, which can be diverted to protein synthesis, growth and development of the animal. 90 piglets weaned at 21 days of age were used. The animals were distributed in a randomized block design based on the initial weight of the animals, with five treatments (0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15 and 0.20% of inclusion of guanidinoacetic acid) six replicates and three animals per experimental unit. The experimental diets and water were fed ad libitum in the pre-initial I phase (21 -32 days old) and pre-initial II (33-42 days old), and the initial phase (43-63 days old). At 42 and 63 days old blood was collected from an animal for experimental unit to analyze creatinine and creatine kinase. They were analyzed daily weight gain, daily feed intake and feed conversion in phases pre-initial (21-42 days old), initial (43-63 days old) and the total duration of the experiment (21-63 days old). All variables were subjected to analysis of variance and regression analysis. It was adopted α = 0.05 and considered trend between α 0,05 and 0,10. In the pre-initial phase (21-42 days), there was a tendency to parameter gain weight daily (P= 0,069), however daily feed intake and feed conversion were not affected significantly by the addition of different levels of guanidinoacetic acid in the diet. As for the blood variables, creatinine levels both at 42 as at 63 days were not significantly affected. For creatine kinase levels at 42 days there was a tendency (P = 0.077), but after 63 days there were significant influences. In the initial phase (43-63 days) and total experimental period (21-63 days) were no significant effects of the inclusion of guanidinoacetic acid, both for performance variables as for creatinine and creatine kinase.