{"id":13174,"date":"2011-09-26T13:29:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=13174"},"modified":"2012-07-27T14:55:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T20:55:34","slug":"lentils-shown-to-be-good-protein-source-for-weanling-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/lentils-shown-to-be-good-protein-source-for-weanling-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lentils Shown to Be Good Protein Source for Weanling Pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 26th 2011, on farmscape.ca radio, Dr. Ruurd Zijlstra of the University 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\u00a0had no negative effect on pig performance. Researchers found that the pigs enjoyed eating lentils so there was no change in feed intake. Further testing found\u00a0that pigs on a diet with 22.5% lentils had no change in average daily gain or feed efficiency, but when pigs were fed a diet that consisted of 30% lentils there was slight negative effects on average daily gain and feed efficiency. This led to belief that the appropriate percentage of lentils in a diet is around the low to mid twenties.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to the interview click here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Lentils-Shown-to-Be-Good-Protein-Source-for-Weanling-Pigs.mp3\">Lentils Shown to Be Good Protein Source for Weanling <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 26th 2011, on farmscape.ca radio, Dr. Ruurd Zijlstra of the University 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 [&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":[1465,3965,1287,17778,46,1062,925,20007,18298,7470,5381,27247,63,14,33,16251,35,23186,20911,26223,11771,10806],"class_list":["post-13174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-swine-innovation-pork-insight-articles","tag-average-daily-gain","tag-content","tag-diets","tag-farmscape","tag-feed","tag-feed-efficiency","tag-feed-intake","tag-gh","tag-lentil-protein-for-pigs","tag-lentils","tag-light","tag-list","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\/13174","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=13174"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13179,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions\/13179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}