Effects of betaine, pen space, and slaughter handling method on growth performance, carcass traits, and pork quality of finishing barrows

JO Matthews, LL Southern, TD Bidner… - Journal of Animal …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
An experiment was conducted to determine the effects of betaine, pen space, and
preslaughter handling method on growth, carcass traits, and pork quality of finishing …

Effects of betaine on growth, carcass characteristics, pork quality, and plasma metabolites of finishing pigs

JO Matthews, LL Southern, AD Higbie… - Journal of animal …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of dietary betaine (0, 0.125, 0.250, or
0.500%) on growth, carcass traits, pork quality, plasma metabolites, and tissue betaine …

Interactive effects of betaine, crude protein, and net energy in finishing pigs

JO Matthews, LL Southern, JE Pontif… - Journal of animal …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
Two experiments were conducted to determine the effect of betaine on growth and carcass
characteristics of finishing pigs. In Exp. 1, 32 gilts were fed one of two diets: 1) a corn …

Impact of betaine on pig finishing performance and carcass composition

BV Lawrence, AP Schinckel, O Adeola… - Journal of animal …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of betaine supplementation of
finishing diets on growth performance and carcass characteristics of swine. Experiment 1 …

Changes in hormones, growth factor and lipid metabolism in finishing pigs fed betaine

QC Huang, ZR Xu, XY Han, WF Li - Livestock Science, 2006 - Elsevier
An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary betaine supplementation on
carcass characteristics, hormones, growth factor and lipid metabolism in finishing pigs. Forty …

The effects of supplementing growing finishing swine diets with betaine and (or) choline on growth and carcass characteristics

JW Smith, BT Richert, KQ Owen, JR Bergstrom… - 1994 - krex.k-state.edu
Eighty crossbred gilts (initially 134 lb) were used in a growth assay to evaluate the effects of
supplementing finishing pig diets with betaine and (or) choline on growth performance and …

A meta-analysis of the effects of dietary betaine supplementation on finishing performance and carcass characteristics of pigs

J Sales - Animal feed science and technology, 2011 - Elsevier
Inconsistent results of the effects of dietary betaine supplementation on important economic
carcass characteristics of finishing pigs have been reported. This has motivated a …

Effect of dietary betaine on nutrient utilization and partitioning in the young growing feed-restricted pig

I Fernández-Fígares, D Wray-Cahen… - Journal of animal …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of dietary betaine over a range of
concentrations (between 0 and 0.5%) on growth and body composition in young feed …

Influence of betaine on pasture, finishing, and carcass performance in steers

BJ Bock, JR Brethour, KR Harmoney… - The Professional Animal …, 2004 - Elsevier
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of supplemental betaine on steer
performance, fat deposition, and carcass characteristics. In Exp. 1 (grazing phase), 80 steers …

Effect of equi-molar dietary betaine and choline addition on performance, carcass quality and physiological parameters of pigs

H Siljander-Rasi, S Peuranen, K Tiihonen… - Animal …, 2003 - cambridge.org
Betaine and its precursor choline were compared in their efficiency in affecting the
performance, carcass traits, and liver betaine concentration of growing-finishing pigs …