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The response of the muscles of weanling Large White × Landrace pigs to methionine and palm-oil supplementation to cassava flour-soya-bean meal diet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

O. O. Balogun ,
B. L. Fetuga  and
V. A. Oyenuga
O. O. Balogun
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
B. L. Fetuga
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
V. A. Oyenuga
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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It was observed in a recently concluded study (O. O. BalogunandB. L. Fetuga, unpublished data) that methionine and palm-oil supplementation to a cassava flour-soya-bean meal diet encouraged satisfactory growth, efficiency of live-weight gain, nitrogen retention and carcass quality of weanling pigs. Our earlier reports (Balogun & Fetuga, 1981; Balogun, Fetuga & Oyenuga, 1982) also indicated that the muscles of pigs responded differently to dietary methionine and lysine and that the quantitative requirements of these amino acids for maximum development of the muscles were at variance with the methionine or lysine requirements for maximum growth performance and nitrogen retention.

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Short Note
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 101 , Issue 3 , December 1983 , pp. 757 - 762
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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