This research aimed to study the effect of adding different rates of lysine on the weight and
growth of common carp fingerlings. The experiment was carried out in the laboratory for 4
months using eight glass containers (40 liters each) with four t
reatments (L0 no Lysine
addition, L1 (2%), L2 (3%), L3(4%) of the total weight of diet. Eight common carp
fingerlings (average of tall 7.5cm ± 0.05 and average of weight 12.25g ± 0.57) were
cultured in each container with Oxygen pumps and filters.
Results showed by growth rate, absolute growth rate, specific growth rate and food
conversion ratio (FCR) that the treatment L1 (2% lysine) was significantly the best
comparing to the other treatments, where FCR was (2.2) and the specific growth ratio was
(0.28 %)
The study was taken place at the experimental station (kharabo), Faculty of
Agriculture, Damascus University, 1464 - one day old chicks of the hybrid
Lohmann were used to determine the effect of adding different levels of
methionine without or wit
h lysine on some of carcass traits. Chicks were
divided randomly and equally into 8 groups (183 each) at the first day with 3
replicates for every group (61 each).
An experiment was carried out using 280 unsexed chicks of a
commercial broiler breed taken randomly from a hatchery after the
start of hatching. The chicks were distributed into four groups of 70
chicks each. The chicks were fed a certain type of
mash feeding for
7 days as follows:
The chicks of the 1st group were given the basal diet directly after
hatching containing 1.2% lysine, This diet is conformed to the
American feed tables of (NRC, 1994).
The 2nd and the 3rd group of chicks were given the diet directly
after hatching but containing 1.45%, 1.70% lysine respectively, and maintaining the rest of the nutrients as in the basal diet.
The chicks of 4th group were given the diet directly after hatching,
but containing 24% protein, and maintaining the rest of the
nutrients as in the basal diet.
After 7 days the chicks of four groups fed a broiler pellet
commercial diet until the age of 42 days.
The results showed the importance of adding lysine to the diet
directly after hatching on the average live weight at the end of the
first week, the differences were significant (P ≤ 0.05) between the
chicks of the third group compared to chicks of the first group. It
was also noted that the increase in lysine in the diet is better than
increasing the crude protein to 24% (P ≤ 0.01) on the average live
weight at the end of the first week. No significant differences were
noticed among the average live weight of the chicks of all groups at
the end of the experiment
The study was carried out at the experimental station, Faculty of
Agriculture. Damascus University. 1464 of the hybrid Lohman broiler chicks,
one day old, were divided randomly and equally into 8 groups (182 chicks/ G)
with 3 replicates of 61 chic
ks each. Chicks in each replicate were reared
separately on deep litter in an independent room of open housing till the age of
42 days. All housing and management procedures were similar for all chicks
while the feeding was different throughout the fattening period in terms of the
amounts of lysine and methionine added to the mix feed. Chicks of G1, G2, G3
and G4 were fed on plants mixtures supplemented with 1, 1.5, 2 and 2.5 kg/ ton
of methionine, respectively. Chicks in G5, G6, G7 and G8 were fed on the same
mixtures of the previous groups but supplemented additionally with 1kg/ton of
lysine. Result showed that adding lysine 1kg/ton and methionine 2kg/ton to
plant mixtures of feeds of broiler helped in improving significantly most of the
indicators of productivity and this in turn led to a reduction of the cost of
feeding and to produce 1 kg live weight, thereby raising the index profit from
the process of fattening and increasing the gain from fattening process.
