Effects of expanding and pelleting diets on finishing pigs fed from wet/dry feeders

Effects of expanding and pelleting diets on finishing pigs fed from wet/dry feeders

Amornthewaphat, N.; Hancock, J.D.; Behnke, K.C.; McKinney, L.J.; Starkey, C.W.; Lee, D.J.; Jones, C.L.; Park, J.S.; Dean, D.W.

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Publication Date: 2000

Conference: Swine Day, Manhattan, KS, November 16, 2000
Starting Page: 132, Ending Page: 134
Publisher: Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service

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Abstract:

Pigs fed pelleted and expanded diets from wet/dry feeders had 4.4% greater ADG and 7.9 % greater efficiency of gain than pigs fed a mash diet. Also, trends for greater efficiencies of gain occurred among pigs fed expanded pellets vs standard pellets and expandate vs expanded pellets.

Keywords: Swine; Expanding; Pelleting; Wet/Dry feeders; Finishing pigs

URL for this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/2673

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