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Effects of including hybrid rye in diets for gestating and lactating sows
Posted in: Pork Insight Articles, Production by student on June 11, 2018
Authors: G. Sorensen and J. Krogsdahl. Canadian Hog Journal Spring 2018.
Summary: When looking at the implications of feeding a diet of 65% rye to sows in gestation and 35% during lactation this study found that it did not affect the litter size or farrowing rate when compared to0 a control diet of just barley and wheat. The study also noted that due to the higher density of rye when compared to other commonly used feed ingredients, the feeders had to be adjusted. The milk yield of the sows was not affected by these concentration of rye, as well as there was no increase in culled sows over a 24 month period.
Effects of including hybrid rye in diets for gestating and lactating sows