Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

Table 3 Analyzed total amino acid profile for diets used in Exp. 1 on as as-fed basis^a

From: The use of feed-grade amino acids in lactating sow diets

		Dietary Treatment^b
Total Amino Acid		1	2	3	4	5
Lysine, %	Analyzed	1.18	1.18	1.20	1.21	1.20
Lysine, %	Calculated	1.16	1.15	1.15	1.15	1.16
Methionine + Cysteine, %	Analyzed^c	0.69	0.69	0.67	0.67	0.66
Methionine + Cysteine, %	Calculated	0.71	0.69	0.67	0.65	0.62
Threonine, %	Analyzed	0.81	0.81	0.81	0.82	0.83
Threonine, %	Calculated	0.79	0.76	0.76	0.77	0.77
Tryptophan, %	Analyzed	0.25	0.24	0.23	0.22	0.21
Tryptophan, %	Calculated	0.27	0.25	0.24	0.23	0.22
Valine, %	Analyzed	1.01	0.98	0.95	0.95	0.90
Valine, %	Calculated	0.94	0.90	0.86	0.82	0.77

^a Diets were analyzed using HPLC at Ajinomoto Heartland Lab, Chicago, IL
^b Dietary treatments were as follows: 1 – 0.00, 2 – 0.075, 3 – 0.150, 4 – 0.225, 5 – 0.300% L-lysine HCl inclusion
^cHMTBa not detected in analysis as it does not contain nitrogen. ALIMET is a trademark of Novus International, Inc., and is registered in the United States and other countries. Methionine source. 88% 2-hydroxy, 4-methylthio butanoic acid, HMTBa

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