Acidifying high moisture cereal grains may have benefits in pig nutrition. When acidified low moisture grains were implemented into nursery piglets’ diets, growth performance and feed intake were improved due to nutrient digestibility and gut health improvements. Acidified high-moisture cereal...

Nursery diets are quite expensive as they are complex in order to help the newly weaned pigs perform better. Simple and complex diets were tested on commercial farms, with the cheaper soybean meal diet limiting growth at first, though both...

Feed prices are continuing to increase, so novel ingredients are being examined for their potential in swine diets. Wheat DDGS is becoming increasingly available in the Prairies and can be implemented in diets in a step-up inclusion strategy up to...

A precision feeding system can help reduce costs by improving the efficiency of nutrients and feed, while also using traceability to enhance food safety and decreasing the environmental footprint by reducing feed waste. Phase feeding is the alternative and it...

Mycotoxins are produced by mould that grows on grains and are toxic and cause diverse effects to livestock. Dilution and feed additives can be used to try to mitigate the effects but their effectiveness is not clear and it increases...

Fusarium mould can often contaminate grains and can produce different mycotoxins including deoxynivalenol (DON). DON has negative effects in pigs when given more than 1 ppm in their feed. Feed additives are available to help reduce the effects of DON,...

Grain contaminated with fusarium mould is at a higher prevalence when the conditions are humid. A mycotoxin that can be produced from fusarium mould in cereal grains is deoxynivalenol. Pigs are very sensitive to this mycotoxin, with only 1 ppm...

Canola meal can be thought of as a supplemental protein source or a novel feed energy source due to the residual oil presence. Expeller-pressed canola meal has higher fibre content, but does not alter weaned pigs feed efficiency, nursery end...

Refining amino acid requirements throughout gestation can help save costs, as they are often overfed nutrients at the start of gestation and underfed at the end. A singe phase feeding program does this, so a phase feeding program with two...

Compensatory growth is possible after reductions in growth rate, so nursery diet costs may be reduced without affecting growth performance in the long run. Robustness is decreased when fed a simple nursery diet compared to a complex one. No differences...