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Journal of Animal Science, Vol 78, Issue 1 233-241, Copyright © 2000 by American Society of Animal Science

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Determination of the methionine requirement of growing double-muscled Belgian blue bulls with a three-step method

E. Froidmont, Y. Beckers and A. Thewis
Faculte Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques, Passage des Deportes, Gembloux, Belgium.

The three-step technique was used to determine the requirements of total amino acids (TAA) and the first-limiting amino acid (AA) in growing double-muscled Belgian Blue bulls (BBb). In Exp. 1, three double-muscled BBb weighing initially 306 +/- 28 kg received a basal diet consisting of 30% meadow hay and 70% concentrate that was poor in digestible protein but had adequate NE because of continuous infusion of dextrose into the duodenum. The intestinal apparent digestibility of essential AA (EAA) was defined according to their duodenal and ileal flows. It averaged 72% but varied between 60% for Met and 79% for Arg. In Exp. 2, five double-muscled BBb (334 +/- 22 kg) received the same diet supplemented with duodenal infusions of dextrose and four doses of Na-caseinate (28, 56, 84, and 112% of intestinal digestible dietary AA) in a 4 x 4 Latin square design with one additional animal. Nitrogen retention for the basal diet alone and the four increasing supplements of Na-caseinate reached 49, 61, 70, 80, and 86 g/d, respectively. Nitrogen utilization improved from 34.3% without Na-caseinate supplementation to a maximum of 40.6%, with the third dose supplying 788 g/d of apparently digestible AA. Based on patterns of plasma concentrations, Met, Phe, and Arg were probably the limiting AA when animals optimized N utilization. In Exp. 3, six double-muscled BBb (315 +/- 25 kg) fed the basal diet received duodenal infusions of dextrose and AA, equivalent to the third dose in Exp. 2, except for digestible Met (9.3, 14.4, 18.4, 22.4, 26.4, and 30.4 g/d) in a 6 x 6 Latin square design. The Met requirement was close to 26.4 g/d on the basis of N retention.


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