{"id":18964,"date":"2017-05-02T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T15:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=18964"},"modified":"2017-05-02T09:07:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T15:07:05","slug":"feeding-lower-than-typical-nutrient-dense-diets-based-on-barley-or-wheat-grain-to-weaned-pigs-x-zhou-eduardo-beltranena-lifang-wang-and-ruurd-t-zijlstra-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/feeding-lower-than-typical-nutrient-dense-diets-based-on-barley-or-wheat-grain-to-weaned-pigs-x-zhou-eduardo-beltranena-lifang-wang-and-ruurd-t-zijlstra-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding lower than typical nutrient dense diets based on barley or wheat grain to weaned pigs &#8211; X. Zhou, Eduardo Beltranena, Lifang Wang and Ruurd T.Zijlstra 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weaned pigs fed barley-based diets grew 41 (g\/day) faster and converted feed into gain six per cent more\u00a0efficiently than those fed wheat-based diets. Diet nutrient\u00a0density had no effect on growth performance, but lower\u00a0than typical nutrient density reduced feed cost and cost per\u00a0kilogram of gain. Producers could therefore consider lower\u00a0nutrient density and including more barley in nursery diets as\u00a0long as pigs are able to maintain feed intake.<\/p>\n<p>Formulating diets with low nutrient\u00a0density reduced feed cost $42.74 and $45.63 per tonne of<br \/>\nwheat or barley-based diet, respectively, and slightly reduced\u00a0feed cost per kg of body weight gain.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers concluded that barley fiber likely\u00a0has a prebiotic effect in the intestine favoring microbes that\u00a0promote gut development and health.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Feeding-lower-than-typical-nutrient-dense-diets-based-on-barley-or-wheat-grain-to-weaned-pigs-X.-Zhou-Eduardo-Beltranena-Lifang-Wang-and-Ruurd-T.Zijlstra-2017.pdf\">Feeding lower than typical nutrient dense diets based on barley or wheat grain to weaned pigs &#8211; X. Zhou, Eduardo Beltranena, Lifang Wang and Ruurd T.Zijlstra 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weaned pigs fed barley-based diets grew 41 (g\/day) faster and converted feed into gain six per cent more\u00a0efficiently than those fed wheat-based diets. Diet nutrient\u00a0density had no effect on growth performance, but lower\u00a0than typical nutrient density reduced feed cost and cost per\u00a0kilogram of gain. Producers could therefore consider lower\u00a0nutrient density and including more barley in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16108,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nutrition-pork-insight-articles","category-pork-insight-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18964","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=18964"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18971,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18964\/revisions\/18971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}