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Effects of Dietary Pantothenic Acid Levels on the Weanling Pig^{1, 2,}

Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station^,6

Abstract

Forty-eight cross-bred pigs were allotted according to weight outcome groups within each sex to 12 different ration treatments to study the pantothenic acid requirement of weanling pigs. A purified ration with levels of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 mg. of pantothenic acid with or without chlortetracycline was fed. The pigs were confined to wire-floored individual crates and self-fed from weaning until they weighed 100 lb.

There was no significant difference in the rate of gain, daily feed consumed, or feed required per lb. of gain between the pigs being fed the different ration treatments. Neither was there any significant difference in hemoglobin, red blood cell count, white blood cell count, differential white blood cell count, hematocrit or clotting time between the pigs on the 12 ration treatments. The amount of calcium pantothenate excreted in the urine when the pigs weighed 75 lb. was found to be closely related to the levels of panothenic acid the pigs were receiving in their rations.

¹ Journal paper No. J-2946 of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa. Project No. 930.

² From a portion of a thesis presented by C. E. Barnhart to the Graduate College, Iowa State College, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree, 1954.

³ Present address: Animal Husbandry Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington.

⁴ Department of Physics, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph.

⁵ Department of Bacteriology.

⁶ Animal Husbandry Department.

Acknowledgment is made to Miss Helen Maddock of American Cynamid Co., New York, N. Y., to Dr. H. O. Hartley, Department of Statistics, and to Mr. Donald Quinn, Swine Nutrition Research Farm Superintendent and his associates for their assistance.

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