Abstract
The effect of feeding corn-soybean meal-based diets with two levels of supplemental leucine (0 vs. 2%) on growth, carcass, and pork quality characteristics was evaluated in 40 individually fed finishing pigs over a 39-d feeding period (78.4 ± 3.46 to 114.8 ± 7.30 kg liveweight). Supplemental dietary leucine reduced weight gain (8.7%; P < 0.05), but had no effect (P > 0.05) on feed intake or gain:feed ratio. Feeding diets with 2% supplemental leucine increased (P < 0.05) longissimus fat content and marbling scores in both barrows and gilts.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 315-318 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Canadian Journal of Animal Science |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2003 |
Keywords
- Dietary leucine
- Finishing pigs
- Intramuscular fat
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Food Animals
- Animal Science and Zoology