Fed Up With High Feed Costs? Chew On This
Feed costs are one of the main expenses in swine production, so a lot of research has been done to help reduce this constant strain on producers. Feeding low, constant net energy diets is a cheaper alternative to feeding higher net energy levels in grow...
Got Milk? Mammary Research Yielding Results
The sow is not producing enough milk to feed the increasing litter sizes produced, so piglet growth is being limited. Improving the sow's milk yield can help maximize piglet growth. This may be accomplished through improving mammary development. The main periods of development are from...
Precision Feeding Can Nourish Your Bottom Line
Fine tuning nutrients in diets is an important part of keeping diet costs as low as possible while having optimal performance with low phosphorus and nitrogen excretion. Precision feeding allows for not only fine tuning of the diets themselves but also for individual diets. Using...
Enhanced DDGS Aims to Perk Up the Pigs
Distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) is a co-product of ethanol production from cereal grains and can reduce feed costs while providing amino acids and energy to pigs. Feed costs are a large portion of the production costs for swine with energy and protein being...
Boar Taint Research in Good Taste
Boar taint is a problem for the pork industry due to its impact on meat quality. Pork has an unpleasant odour and a gamey taste when from an uncastrated male due to sex pheromones produced, which is why early castration is a common occurrence in...
EGF Helps Piglets Get Growing
Epidermal growth factor (EGF) supports the piglets' intestines development and is produced through the sows milk naturally. Weaning pigs earlier decreases the amount of milk and EGF a piglet would normally consume which slows their development and growth. Making EGF chemically is too expensive to...
Reducing Post-Weaning Diarrhea: Digesting the Results
Previously, low levels of antibiotics were supplied in feed so that post-weaning diarrhea was reduced. Feed additives may be able to help replace antibiotics and decrease the incidence of post-weaning diarrhea. Three types of prebiotics and an organic acid salt were added to the diets....
High Hopes for High Moisture Grain Treatment
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 grains in feed do not...
Post Weaning Diets: A Simple Solution
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 groups were similar at market....
Validating Net Energy of Wheat DDGS
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 15% and 30% in nursery...