Effects of the standardized ileal digestible lysine to metabolizable energy ratio on performance and carcass characteristics of growing-finishing pigs

Table 1 ME and SID lysine values of individual ingredients used in experiments 1 to 6

	Corn	Soybean meal	Wheat bran	Soybean oil
Metabolizable energy¹, Mcal/kg	3.39	3.59	2.18	8.40
Standardized ileal digestible lysine², %	0.18	2.39	0.38	-

¹The metabolizable energy content of corn, soybean meal and wheat bran were determined previously in our laboratory (data not published). Metabolizable energy of soybean oil (calculated as 96% of DE) was obtained from Feeding Standard of Swine [2].
²Standardized ileal digestible lysine was determined previously using pigs surgically equipped with a T-cannula in the distal ileum. The basal ileal endogenous losses were measured by feeding a nitrogen-free diet (data not published).

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