Effect of Supplemental Choline on Performance of Starting, Growing and Finishing Pigs: A Cooperative Regional Study

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Severn hundred pigs were used in experiments at eight stations to evaluate the efficacy of supplemental dietary choline during the starting, growing and finishing production phases. Increasing levels of choline chloride were added to corn-soy-lysine basal diets formulated to contain 15% crude protein (.95% lysine), 13% crude protein, (.75% lysine) and 11% crude protein (.55% lysine) for the starting, growing and finishing production phases, respectively. The addition of choline did not produce a growth response during any stage of production. Likewise, feed to gain ratios did not differ although there was a trend for choline supplementation to impair feed conversion during the growing phase. It is concluded that added choline has no beneficial effect on performance in corn-soy-lysine diets fed to pigs. Copyright © 1980. American Society of Animal Science. Copyright 1980 by American Society of Animal Science.

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