TROMBOGENIC, ATEROGENIC AND BLOOD PARAMETERS OF SWINE IN TERMINATION FEEDED WITH RACTOPAMINE AND DIFFERENT VEGETABLE OILS
blood lipidemia, HDL, LDL, coconut oil, safflower oil, swine farming.
The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of the inclusion of vegetable oils (coconut and safflower) and ractopamine on feed intake, weight gain, feed efficiency, thrombogenic and atherogenic indexes and blood parameters (total cholesterol, HDL, LDL and triglycerides) of finishing pigs. Twenty-four castrated males with a mean weight of 78.00 ± 8.76 kg were distributed in a randomized block design with four treatments and six replicates. The variables analyzed were performance, blood parameters and thrombogenic and atherogenic indexes of lard and loin cuts. There was a significant effect (p <0.05) for the performance data, omega 6 and 3 ratio in the cut and for the total cholesterol (initial and final), LDL (final), HDL (final) and VLDL) of the blood parameters. With this, two recommendations can be made, supplementation with coconut oil to improve animal performance and safflower oil to promote increased HDL level and improved blood parameters.