Adjusting lysine for lean meat

Careful adjustment of the lysine amino acid through the feeding period doesn’t help weight gain or feed conversion – but with some breeding lines it brings a definite advantage in carcass quality at the end of the day.   The Dutch market leader in hybrid pig sales, Topigs, has introduced a new strategy for feeders of its breeding lines for less fat and higher proportions of lean meat in the resultant carcass. Eduard Eissing, managing director of the company’s German-based organisa