Research

Effects of Pelleting Diets without or with DDGS on Growing-Finishing Barrows and Gilts

Published May 6, 2016

Feeding pelleted diets improved growth performance and increased carcass weight and fatness without causing the development of gastric lesions that would reduce the value of the stomach to packers. Furthermore, inclusion of DDGS in diets reduced HCW and dressing percent and increased GI tract and GI tract contents weight but had no effect on gastric lesion development or LM quality.

Pork Fat Quality of Pigs Fed DDGS with Variable Oil Content and Evaluation of Iodine Value Prediction Equations

Published February 5, 2016

Reduced oil content of DDGS generally decreased the negative impact of feeding DDGS diets on pork fat quality by lowering the IV of pork fat depots.

Evaluation of ME Predictions and the Impact of Feeding Maize DDGS with Variable Oil Content on Growing-Finishing Pigs

Published January 19, 2016

Reduced EE content of DDGS sources did not affect ADG, ADFI, and carcass composition, and led to improvements in pork fat quality. These results suggest that current ME predictions need to be refined for more accurate estimation of ME content for low-oil DDGS sources for swine.

Concentration of DE and ME and Digestibility of Energy and Nutrients by Growing Pigs

Published January 5, 2016