Two experiments (E) were conducted, using 204 Large White piglets (E1: from 7.23 to 12.32 kg; and E2: from 12.64 to 23.81 kg). A randomized block design was used, with four levels of threonine in the ration (E1: 0.80; 087; 0.93 e 0.99%; e E2: 0.69; 0.74; 0.80 e 0.85 %); eight (E1) and nine (E2) replicates for daily intake (DI), daily weight gain (DWG), adjusted daily weight gain (ADWG) and feed conversion (FC) and five replicates for plasma urea […]

Forty Nellore bulls, with 240 kg initial live weight (LW), were used. Four were reference bulls, four were fed for maintenance, and the remaining were allotted to eight treatments, with four different concentrate levels in the diets (20, 40, 60 and 80%) and two levels of crude protein (CP) (15 and 18%). The growing phase was evaluated up to 360 kg of LW and the fattening phase, up to 450 kg of LW. The roughage used was Tyfton bermudagrass hay […]

An experiment was carried out to evaluate the effects of metabolizable lysine (LM) and metabolizable energy (EM) on uni and multivariable of performance and carcasses of broilers, maintaining the ideal protein balance. Were used 2808 male chicks from a commercial line from 1 to 21 days and allotted to 104 pens. The treatments resulted from a factorial arrangement of three ME levels (3,000, 3,100 and 3,200 kcal/kg) and four LM levels (0.92, 1.02, 1.12 and 1.22%) plus another treatment on […]

This study was carried out to determine the apparent digestibility coefficients (ADC) of amino acids for corn, wheat bran, soybean meal and fish meal in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), juveniles (25.24 ± 3.88 g), fed purified pelletized reference diet containing 33.78% crude protein and 0.10% of chromic oxide (indicator). The average ADC of amino acids were: 88.31; 77.40; 91.78 and 82.58% for corn, wheat meal, soybean meal and fish meal, respectively. Althought results suggest that the protein ADC value is […]

Forty gilts, averaging 15,47 kg initial weight, allotted to a randomized complete block design, with five treatments: .49, .54, .59, .64 and .69% of total threonine, four replicates and two animals per experimental unit, were used to determine the threonine requirement for gilts from 15 to 30 kg. The experimental diets were formulated with corn, sorghum, and soybean meal and corn gluten meal, supplemented with minerals, vitamins and amino acids and supplied ad libitum to the animals. At the end […]

Two studies were conducted to determine the true digestible threonine requirement for barrows from 15 to 30 kg live weight (LW). In the first (digestibility trial) were used eight barrows, averaging 30,3 kg LW initial weight, submitted previous to the ileum-rectal anastomosis surgery, were allotted to a randomized block design, with two treatments, four replicates and one animal per experimental unit. The treatments consisted of a basal diet, with 15.7% of crude protein (CP) and .49% of total threonine, and […]