Supplementing corn-soybean meal diets with microbial phytase maximizes phytate phosphorus utilization by weanling pigs
1993
Lei, X.G. | Ku, P.K. | Miller, E.R. | Yokoyama, M.T. | Ullrey, D.E.
Two experiments were conducted with crossbred weanling pigs to determine the optimal dietary supplement of Aspergillus niger phytase activity to a low-P, corn-soybean meal basal diet (BD). In Exp. 1, 50 pigs (7.61 +/- .56 kg BW) received the BD supplemented with 750, 1,050, 1,250, or 1,350 phytase units (PU)/g, or .21% P as mono-dibasic calcium phosphate (MDCaP) for 4 wk. In Exp. 2, 12 pigs (6.39 +/- .74 kg BW) were individually housed in metabolism cages and received BD, BD plus the optimal phytase activity (1,200 PU/g), or BD plus .21% P as MDCaP for 2 wk. In Exp. 1, additions of phytase > 1,050 PU/g of BD did not improve ADG, ADFI, gain/feed, or plasma AP activity. Quadratic relationships between dietary phytase activity and these measures were found and their stationary points were at approximately 1,200 PU/g of BD. Estimated maximum responses of these measures in pigs fed phytase were greater than or equal to 90% compared with MDCaP. Pigs fed 1,250 PU/g of BD maintained normal plasma P and Ca concentrations. In Exp. 2, pigs that received 1,200 PU/g of BD utilized dietary P more effectively (P < .05) than pigs fed the BD or the BD plus MDCaP. Although they consumed 44% less P per day, these pigs retained only 7% less P than pigs that received MDCaP. One thousand units of phytase activity supported retention of 1.1 mg of P from the BD, and this level of phytase supplementation was equivalent in effect to .91 mg of P from MDCaP. Supplements of A. niger phytase at 1,200 PU/g of BD for weanling pigs seemed to maximize utilization of phytate-P and obviate the need for almost all of an inorganic P addition.
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