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Feeding wheat millrun to starter pigs
Posted in: Pork Insight Articles, Production by admin on August 9, 2016
Authors: H. Garcia, L.F. Wang, J.L. Landero, E. Beltranena, M. Cervantes, A. Morales, R.T. Zijlstra
Source: Western Hog Journal Fall 2015
This study aims to test whether wheat millrun can be used to replace soybean meal and wheat grain in stage three weaner pig diets. Diets were formulated containing either 0, 5, 10, 15, or 20 per cent wheat millrun in substitution of up to 15 per cent soybean meal and 5 per cent wheat grain. After the pigs had been fed stage one and two diets, the were fed the experimental diets for 21 days.
Feed intake, growth, and final body weight was not affected by wheat millrun inclusion. Feed conversion improved as more wheat millrun was included. Increasing wheat millrun reduced apparent total tract digestibility of gross energy, but not of crude protein. Diet digestible energy values remained constant.
Given proper diet formulation, wheat millrun can be included up to 20% in nursery pig diets, replacing 15% soybean meal and 5% wheat grain. This can decrease the cost of diets, thereby increasing the margin for profit.
Feeding Wheat Millrun to Starter Garcia