1 2 Growth performance and carcass characteristics of growing swine fed corn distiller’s dried 3 grains with solubles originating from a modern mid-western ethanol plant 4 5 M. H. Whitney, G. C. Shurson, L. J. Johnston, D. M. Wulf, and B. C. Shanks. 6 7 ∗ Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108, † Department of 8 Animal Science, University of Minnesota, Morris 5626...

In this study, organically raised pigs received an increasing proportion of grass silage up to 10 and 20% dry matter in the daily ration in the grower and finisher period, respectively, to determine the effects of grass silage on feed intake and growth performance. The pigs receiving a mixture of grass silage and compound feed ingested 0.3 kg DM/d (13% of their daily ration) as grass silage and...

Understanding of the bovine fecal microbiome could contribute to solving issues regarding animal production, cattle health and food safety. The objective of this study was to examine the influence of diet on the fecal microbiome in feedlot cattle. The next-generation pyrosequencing technology was used to investigate fecal microbiomes of 426 cattle fed one of 3 diets: finishing diet (83% dry-rol...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the effects of restricted feeding on performance, carcass characteristics, and composition. In Trial 1, 36 individually penned steer calves (280 +/- 13 kg BW) were fed all-concentrate diets at intake levels of ad libitum and 90 and 80% of ad libitum. Trial 2 used 36 individually penned steer calves (298 +/- 14 kg BW) fed corn silage-based growing diet...

Crossbred growing-finishing pigs (n = 120) were used to investigate the effect of three dietary Ca:total P (tP) ratios (1.5:1, 1.3:1, or 1.0:1) on P utilization in low-P corn-soybean meal diets supplemented with microbial phytase at 500 phytase units/kg. The basal grower (23 to 54 kg BW) diet contained .39% tP including .07% added inorganic P (iP), and the basal finisher (54 to 123 kg BW) diet ...

T HE reliance on certain cereal grains as sole sources of dietary protein for finishing swine has been successful when supplemental lysine has been provided. Milo and wheat, appropriately supplemented with vitamins, minerals and lysine, have each produced gain and feed/gain equal to that of a 12 % protein cornsoybean meal diet (Jensen, Becker and Harmon, 1965, 1967). Recent introduction of Opaq...

Seven experiments were conducted with 280 crossbred pigs to investigate the effect of excess choline on rate and efficiency of gain of weanling, growing and finishing swine Choline additions were made to a conventional corn-soybean meal diet. Daily gain of weanling pigs was reduced slightly by 6,000 ppm excess choline compared with 0, 500, 1,000, 2,000 or 4,000 ppm excess choline. Excess supple...

in order to investigate antioxidant and antimicrobial effects of pomegranate peel powder (ppp), this research was conducted as completely randomized design arranged in a 2 × 2 factorial experiment using pomegranate peel powder (0 and 2 percent) and soybean oil (so, zero and six percent in growing period; zero and eight percent in finishing period). one hundred and sixty 11-day-old ross 308 broi...

An experiment was conducted to study the effect of adding crystalline niacin to low-protein diets on pig performance from weaning to market weight. Niacin was added at 0, 3, 9, 27, or 81 ppm to a low-protein test (LPT) diet fortified with crystalline amino acids and at 0 or 81 ppm to a positive control (PC) diet. Pens (four pigs/pen) were the experimental units with 12 and 8 pens per treatment ...