Developing Weaning Pig Programs Based on Age and Weight
Needs for less antibiotic usage, lower costs, improved performance and reduced variability make feeding the newly weaned pig challenging. Diets were monitored on pigs of different weight and age to see what they respond to better in order to reduce...
Interaction of Net Energy Concentration and Feeding Level in Weaned Pigs
Growth is restricted in weaned pigs due to energy intake possibly because of restrictions in gut capacity. Energy intake and growth should increase when dietary energy concentrations increase, but recent findings do not support this. Weanling pig performance was not...
Increasing Diet Tallow and Dietary Energy on Performance
The most expensive nutrient in pig diets is energy. Previous research has shown that diets with differing energy concentration led to equivalent performance in pigs. Dietary energy was investigated regarding its impact on carcass quality, uniformity of growth and its...
Effect of Wheat Quality and Xylanase Supplementation on Weaned Pigs
Variation in nutritional quality of feed is common and impacts the pigs performance. Protein and fibre content influence nutritional quality between wheat samples. A fibre degrading enzyme supplement may reduce quality variation of wheat on pig performance. The variation was...
Nutritional Value of Corn and Wheat Distillers Grain and Growth Performance
Increasing quantities of distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) are becoming available for livestock rations as the ethanol industry grows. The nutritional value of DDGS is not fully understood for swine. Generally, a higher concentration of nutrients such as protein,...
Xylanase and Phytase Supplementation on Growth Performance of Grower Pigs
If nutrients bound by the arabinoxylan and phytate of wheat millrun could be released through enzyme supplementation, feed costs may decrease or nutrient intake may be enhanced. Larger inclusion rates of wheat millrun into swine diets could also be allowed...
Nutritional Value of Zero-Tannin Faba Beans for Grower-Finisher Hogs
Zero-tannin faba beans are available in Alberta and so nutrient content and a performance study need to be completed in order to see if they may be a potential replacement to soybean meal in swine diets. Amino acid and energy...
Interaction Among Lactose, Plasma Proteins and Crowding in Weanlings
Current starter programs use lactose and porcine plasma as key ingredients. If antibiotic use in diet is restricted, these may become more important. Depending on age or weight of the pigs, these feed additives may have differential effects. This is...
Dietary Phytase Reduces Phosphorus Excretion in Weanling Pigs
Phytase use in pig diets is increasing as it is effective in improving the digestibility of phosphorus in cereal grains. Less total phosphorus is needed and phosphorus output is decreased along with feeding costs. The calcium to phosphorus ratio needs...
The Dose Response to Phytase Inclusion in Diets for Growing Swine
Phytic acid is the main source of phosphorus in oilseeds and grains in swine diets but is unavailable to pigs and is therefore excreted. Diet cost is increased by adding inorganic phosphorus to pig diets to meet the dietary requirements....
Starch Content and in Vitro Digestibility of Barley and Wheat Samples Differing in Fibre Content
Wheat and barley have a large variation of DE content in Western Canada. This is caused by digestibility of energy changes. Cereal grains’ main source of energy is starch, though the content differs among different samples. Fibre has the largest...
Voluntary Feed Intake and Growth Performance between Grower Pig Diets Containing Mustard Meal or Canola Meal
A valuable ingredient for the swine industry may be mustard meal, though concern exists regarding voluntary feed intake of this diet. Canola meal and mustard meal diets with a 15% inclusion rate were studied for 28 days. A 5% better...
