Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Net energy of three sources of distillers dried grains with solubles fed to growing and finishing pigs
February 5, 2009By Hans Stein
In North America, when energy is considered in formulation of swine diets, it is usually expressed as either digestible energy (DE) or metabolizable energy (ME). An energy system includes energy...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Influence of Rapid Introduction and Removal of Dietary DDGS on Pig Performance and Carcass Characteristics
January 28, 2009By G.C. Shurson
Pork producers and nutritionists want to use feed ingredients that will optimize pig performance at the lowest cost. Inclusion of DDGS in the diets for grower-finisher pigs may be economical at...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluation of crude glycerin in swine
January 22, 2009By Brian Kerr
The objective of the proposed research was to determine the variation in metabolizable energy (ME) content of crude glycerin samples from a several biodiesel production facilities using different...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Critical review of literature on feeding bio-fuels co-products to pigs.
November 23, 2008By Hans Stein
The digestibility of nutrients in distillers co-products vary among sources. The variability is of the same magnitude as for other co-products. Heat damage to lysine often occurs, which results...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Digestibility of dietary fiber from distillers co-products fed to growing pigs
October 17, 2008By Hans Stein
The rapidly increasing production of ethanol is generating large amounts of distillers’ co-products that are available for swine feeding programs. These co-products can help reduce feed cost....
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Corn distillers dried grains (DDGS) for growing-finishing swine
July 3, 2008By Philip S. Miller
A nutrition study was conducted to investigate the feeding value of DDGS for growing-finishing swine. Specifically, growing-finishing diets were developed that contain 0 (control), 5, 10, and 15%...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Management guide for reduced usage of antibiotics in swine production
May 31, 2007By Hans Stein
A summary of research conducted to investigate possibilities for reducing the negative impact of discontinuing the use of antibiotic growth promoters has documented that many management tools are...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Aspects of yeast-based products in enhancing animal production
October 1, 2006By Christopher Mateo
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Critical Review of Acidifiers
September 29, 2006By James Pettigrew
The inclusion of various organic acids or their salts to diets improves the growth performance of pigs and helps in preventing scouring and high mortality post-weaning. The beneficial effects of...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Critical Review of Functional Animal Proteins
July 26, 2006By James Pettigrew
Spray-dried plasma and immune egg products provide dramatic benefits when added to diets of young weaned pigs. Spray-dried plasma increases growth rate and resistance to enteric infection, while...
