Feeding value of barley-based fat enriched diets for weaned piglets

Feeding weaned piglets and growing -

In 2000, EU regulations for organic animal production set new guidelines for organic pig feeding requiring that this be based on mainly home-grown organic feedstuffs. Doubts were however raised whether these feeding regimes can maintain good growth performance and carcass quality of pigs. Three experiments were carried out to study different organic feeding regimes in weaned piglets and fatteni...

Insoluble nonstarch polysaccharides in diets for weaned piglets.

To examine the effect of inclusion insoluble nonstarch polysaccharides (iNSP) in weaned diets on postweaning piglet performance, intestinal activity, and microbial composition 2 experiments were designed. In Exp. 1, 180 piglets were weaned at 28 d of age and divided over 3 treatments: positive control (PC; highly digestible protein), negative control (NC; standard cereal-based diet), and an exp...

A broiler chick bioassay for measuring the feeding value of wheat and barley in complete diets.

Energy is an important component of poultry feed and is derived principally from cereal grains. Unfortunately, all of the chemical energy is not available to the bird, and biological assays must be used to determine the digestible energy value of a cereal grain. The bioassay described uses four pens of six male broiler chicks, complete diets containing 80% of a test cereal grain (with or withou...

Feeding value of dried lime pulp in broiler diets

Fat Quality and Feeding Value of Fat for Feedlot Cattle

While much attention has been directed at understanding factors influencing the NE value of supplemental fat (Zinn, 1994), alterations in NE do not necessarily form the basis for constraints on supplementation. Indeed, greater concern is often directed at potential detrimental effects of supplemental fat on diet acceptability and feed intake (Brethour et al., 1957; BuchananSmith et al., 1974; C...