{"id":13167,"date":"2011-10-14T12:10:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T18:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=13167"},"modified":"2012-07-27T14:57:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T20:57:02","slug":"lentils-shown-effective-in-weanling-pig-diets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/lentils-shown-effective-in-weanling-pig-diets\/","title":{"rendered":"Lentils Shown Effective in Weanling Pig Diets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 14th 2011, on farmscape.ca radio,\u00a0Dr. Ruurd Zijlstra of the\u00a0University of Alberta discussed the effects of lentils in diets:<\/p>\n<p>Due to excess lentils after the 2010 harvest, tests were carried out by the University of Alberta to see the effectiveness of lentils in weanling pig diets. Results show that a diet with up to 20% lentils had no negative effect on pig performance. Lentils are members of legume family meaning the have very high protein and energy levels but have anti-nutritional factors like phytic acids.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">So we basically wanted to have a look at how pigs would react to switching the nutritional profile and make sure that there were no negative responses relative to the anti-nutritional factors&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To hear the interview click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Lentils-Shown-Effective-in-Weanling-Pig-Diets.mp3\">Lentils Shown Effective in Weanling Pig Diets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 14th 2011, on farmscape.ca radio,\u00a0Dr. Ruurd Zijlstra of the\u00a0University of Alberta discussed the effects of lentils in diets: Due to excess lentils after the 2010 harvest, tests were carried out by the University of Alberta to see the effectiveness of lentils in weanling pig diets. Results show that a diet with up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14948],"tags":[1809,3965,1287,27278,17778,20007,9053,7470,18207,79,63,14,33,16251,35,23186,20911,26223,11771,10806],"class_list":["post-13167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-swine-innovation-pork-insight-articles","tag-acid","tag-content","tag-diets","tag-energy","tag-farmscape","tag-gh","tag-leg","tag-lentils","tag-lentils-shown-effective-in-weanling-pig-diets","tag-nutrition","tag-performance","tag-pig","tag-pigs","tag-prairieswine-com","tag-swine","tag-swine-com","tag-t","tag-the-effects","tag-www-prairieswine-com","tag-zijlstra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13197,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167\/revisions\/13197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}