Inevitably, pigs will experience stressors that antagonize lean tissue accretion, appetite, and feed conversion. Depending on the production system and age of the pig, these stressors commonly include weaning transition,…
…weight = 33.7 ± 5.5 kg) fitted with a T-cannula in the distal ileum were individually housed in pens equipped with a feeder and a nipple drinker. Two corn-soybean meal-based…
FY17 Literature Review of Soy Bioactives and Pigs Super-dosing of phytase to increase the use of soybean meal Soybean carbohydrate composition analysis Health effects of soybean meal-fed pigs with special…
…intervals before harvest. Diets contained 40% DDGS prior to the experiment, or 35% DDGS during the experiment from approximately 66 to 82 kg and or 30% DDGS until the completion…
Feed formulation using apparent metabolizable energy (AME) corrected to zero nitrogen retention (AMEn) is widely used by poultry nutritionists. Most available tabulated data are from experiments using adult cockerels or…
Data was collected on 1866 sows at a 3600 sow commercial farm in eastern North Carolina. Sows were randomly assigned to one of four treatments from day 108 of gestation…
…respectively.) Thirty-six growing barrows (initial BW: 22.0 ± 3.85 kg) were placed in metabolism cages and allotted to a randomized complete block design with four diets and nine pigs per…
…A crude glycerin with the following composition (3696 kcal GE/kg, 3579 kcal ME/kg, 8.3% moisture, 82.0% glycerol, 0.79% crude fat, 1.21% sodium and 16 ppm of methanol) was used to…
Trypsin inhibitors are present in raw soybean meal and in several meal fractions. At least four inhibitors have been separated on DEAE-cellulose columns. All of these fractions can be inactivated…
…in a 20 to 29% improvement in the feed production rate compared with the control. Production efficiency (kg/kWh) increased linearly (P < 0.05) as the level of crude glycerin in…