NAKED OATS IN GROWER-FINISHER PIG DIETS

The use of expeller copra meal in grower and finisher pig diets *

Two experiments were conducted to determine the nutritive value of copra meal for grower and finisher pigs (40–95 kg). 21 The apparent nutrient digestibility of copra meal, when included at 200 and 400 g kg in the diet of both the grower and finisher pig, was determined in experiment 1. In experiment 2, productive performance was determined in group fed pigs 21 (n 5 360) offered diets ad libitu...

Remixing Lightweight Pigs in the Grower-finisher

A recent study has shown that sorting and regrouping lightweight pigs with pigs of similar size does not improve their growth performance and carcass characteristics. M. C. Brumm and coworkers (2002) hypothesized that managing variation in the nursery and grower-finisher by sorting and regrouping lightweight pigs might improve their performance. Five experiment stations (in Illinois, Iowa, Mich...

Effect of Oats in Pig Starter Diets on Growth Performance

The objective of this study was to examine the effect of including steamed rolled oats in the nursery diet on pig performance. Pigs were fed diets with 10% oats in the phase 1 diet (day 0-10 post-weaning) and 5% in the phase 2 diet (day 10-28 post weaning). There were 5 pens of 7-8 pigs each on the control and oat diets. Pigs fed the oat diets had greater gain from day 0-10 and overall. Feed in...

The Effects of Dietary Fat Supplementation on Grower/ Finisher Pig Performance and Digestibility

Compensatory growth and nitrogen balance in grower-finisher pigs.

Sixteen castrated male pigs (averaging 21.2 +/- 4.9 kg) were used in two trials to investigate the effect of dietary amino acid content during the grower phase on growth performance and N balance. In each trial, pigs were assigned randomly to corn-soybean meal grower diets formulated to contain 5.0 or 11.0 g lysine/kg (as-fed basis). Common Finisher 1 and 2 diets were offered when pigs reached ...