Table 3.
Analysed lysine, arginine, and methionine content of experimental diets fed to turkeys in successive feeding periods, g/100 g.
| Feeding period, weeks | AA | Treatment1 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arg90Met30 | Arg90Met45 | Arg100Met30 | Arg100Met45 | Arg110Met30 | Arg110Met45 | ||
| 1–4 | Lys | 1.81 | 1.82 | 1.85 | 1.78 | 1.89 | 1.85 |
| Arg. | 1.59 | 1.64 | 1.86 | 1.78 | 2.04 | 2.08 | |
| Met | 0.53 | 0.78 | 0.56 | 0.76 | 0.57 | 0.78 | |
| 5–8 | Lys | 1.67 | 1.70 | 1.64 | 1.66 | 1.65 | 1.68 |
| Arg. | 1.50 | 1.48 | 1.64 | 1.61 | 1.77 | 1.79 | |
| Met | 0.50 | 0.72 | 0.52 | 0.71 | 0.51 | 0.70 | |
| 9–12 | Lys | 1.45 | 1.50 | 1.47 | 1.51 | 1.48 | 1.46 |
| Arg | 1.35 | 1.31 | 1.50 | 1.50 | 1.66 | 1.65 | |
| Met | 0.43 | 0.67 | 0.46 | 0.66 | 0.46 | 0.63 | |
| 13–16 | Lys | 1.14 | 1.17 | 1.16 | 1.12 | 1.12 | 1.09 |
| Arg | 1.03 | 1.02 | 1.14 | 1.11 | 1.24 | 1.22 | |
| Met | 0.33 | 0.49 | 0.34 | 0.48 | 0.32 | 0.49 | |
Treatment: Arg90Met30 received 90% Arg level and 30% Met level relative to the content of dietary Lys; Arg90Met45 received 90% Arg level and 45% Met level relative to the content of dietary Lys; Arg100Met30 received 100% Arg level and 30% Met level relative to the content of dietary Lys; Arg100Met45 received 100% Arg level and 45% Met level relative to the content of dietary Lys; Arg110Met30 received 110% Arg level and 30% Met level relative to the content of dietary Lys; Arg110Met45 received 110% Arg level and 45% Met level relative to the content of dietary Lys.