Low Cost Feeding Strategies in Nursery Production – Feeding Simplified Diets with Feed Enzymes

Posted in: Pork Insight Articles, Production by student on July 26, 2018

Authors: B. Koo, and C.M. Nyachoti

Reference: Canadian Hog Journal Summer 2018

Summary: Highly palatable and digestible ingredients are utilized in nursery pig diets in order to minimize the post weaning challenges. This helps to reduce impaired gut morphology and high incidences of diarrhea. However, in exchange their is a greater cost associated with the diet. As a result, this study looked at potentially including low quality alternatives to conventional ingredients with the hope of not affecting the growth performance of the piglet.

When comparing the different diets it was identified that there was no apparent difference in average daily gain between newly weaned pigs over the course of a four week experiment period. However, there was a different during the first week post weaning as the conventional diet supported superior growth during this time. During the four week observation period it was noted that pigs that were fed the simple diet had better feed efficiency than those that were fed the conventional diet.

Feeding the simple diet did have significant effects on the overall cost of the diet.

Low Cost Feeding Strategies in Nursery Production – Feeding Simplified Diets with Feed Enzymes

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