The digestibility of nutrients in distillers co-products vary among sources. The variability is of the same magnitude as for other co-products. Heat damage to lysine often occurs, which results in a greater variation in the concentration of total and digestible…
Digestibility of dietary fiber from distillers co-products fed to growing pigs
The rapidly increasing production of ethanol is generating large amounts of distillers’ co-products that are available for swine feeding programs. These co-products can help reduce feed cost. There are several challenges, however, when including such co-products in swine diets. An…
Corn distillers dried grains (DDGS) for growing-finishing swine
A nutrition study was conducted to investigate the feeding value of DDGS for growing-finishing swine. Specifically, growing-finishing diets were developed that contain 0 (control), 5, 10, and 15% DDGS. These dietary treatments were maintained during a three-phase (Phase-1, 50 to…
Management guide for reduced usage of antibiotics in swine production
A summary of research conducted to investigate possibilities for reducing the negative impact of discontinuing the use of antibiotic growth promoters has documented that many management tools are available for producers. The most important of these tools are the following:…
Critical Review of Acidifiers
The inclusion of various organic acids or their salts to diets improves the growth performance of pigs and helps in preventing scouring and high mortality post-weaning. The beneficial effects of organic acids on growth performance are evident within the first…
Carbohydrate and Bacterial Non-antibiotic Production Enhancers
Although there is a relatively small data set on specific probiotic or prebiotic treatments, especially when the experiments also have an antibiotic treatment as a positive control, there is an increase in data being published and we should have a…
Critical Review of Functional Animal Proteins
Spray-dried plasma and immune egg products provide dramatic benefits when added to diets of young weaned pigs. Spray-dried plasma increases growth rate and resistance to enteric infection, while properly-targeted immune egg products markedly improve resistance to disease. Whey proteins provide…