Maintenance requirement and deposition efficiency of lysine in pigs

The objective of this work was to determine the maintenance requirement and the deposition efficiency of lysine in growing pigs. It was used the incomplete changeover experimental design, with replicates over time. Twelve castrated pigs with average body weight (BW) of 52±2 kg were kept in metabolis...

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Main Authors: Marcos Speroni Ceron, Vladimir de Oliveira, Paulo Alberto Lovatto, Marcos Martinez do Vale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Embrapa Informação Tecnológica 2013-09-01
Series:Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2013000900011&lng=en&tlng=en