Sixty swine (Landrace x Large White) with initial weight of 14.97 ± 0.33 kg and 50.36 ± 3.29 days old were allotted to a blocks randomized experimental design, with five treatments (0.465, 0.511, 0.558, 0.605, and 0.652% digestible methionine + and cystine)and six replicates of two animals, to determine the sulphurous amino acids requirements for barrows on a high temperature environment from 15 to 30 kg. Diets and water were fed ad libitum until the end of the experimental period, when the animals reached the weight of 29.87 ± 0.52 kg. The average temperature inside the room was maintained in 30.9 ± 0.7ºC and the relative humidity in 67.5 ± 7.2%. The black globe humidity index calculated in the period was 81.2 ± 1.2. Linear increasing effect of dietary digestible methionine + cystine levels on daily weight gain and linear decreasing effect on feed:gain ratio were observed. No effects of treatments on daily feed intake were observed. Quadratic effect of treatments on fat deposition rate, that decreased by 0.508%, and increasing linear effect on protein deposition rate were observed. It was concluded that the dietary digestible sulphurous amino acids requirement for barrows on a high temperature environment from 15 to 30 kg is of 0.558% digestible methionine + cystine, that corresponds to 60% digestible methionine and cystine:digestible lysine ratio.
heat stress; methionine + cystine; requirement; swine
