Sow, Pig Dietrary Adjustments Can Lower Costs | Tailor Feeding To Fit Your Pigs, Budget
Focus on feeding sows more efficiently and not overfeeding certain diets and special ingredients. There are two critical points to address when trying...
Phytase Helps Lower Phosphorus in Swine Manure | Dietary Adjustments Lower Phosphorus
Dried distiller's grains with solubles (DDGS) and phytase help lower phosphorus in manure, eliminate need for supplemental phosphorus. Last year, when...
Rethinking the Measures Of Dietary Efficiency
The livestock industry has always competed with other sectors of the economy for corn and other feed ingredients. The most common example is the broad...
Antibiotics Vital to Hog Health, Food Safety
The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) is voicing strong opposition to two pieces of legislation that would remove and restrict antibiotics for veterinary and farm use....
Feed Additives Don't Resolve Mycotoxin Contamination
Two related feed additives failed to resolve the impact of mycotoxin contamination in a nursery pig trial...
Modern Sows Have Higher Nutrient Requirements
The major goal for managing nutritional programs for sows in lactation is to maximize milk production without incurring substantial losses in body condition...
Ractopamine Improves Growth, Carcass Value
When finishing pigs were fed a control diet vs. ractopamine-supplemented (Paylean from Elanco Animal Health) diet for 27 days prior to slaughter, ractopamine improved growth and feed conversion, decreased backfat and improved loin thickness...
Additives to Improve Flowability of DDGS Studied
University of Minnesota (U of M) researchers have found that in-creasing moisture content of dried distiller's grains with solubles (DDGS) from 9% to 12% clearly and significantly reduced the flowability of the feedstuff...
Timing is Critical with Oral Vaccination
Producers must provide up to six hours to ensure that all nursery pigs receive ample time to visit a drinker when orally vaccinating for ileitis. Studies...
FDA Approves Antibiotic
New feed antibiotic helps control swine respiratory disease. Schering-Plough Animal Health has introduced a broad-spectrum antibiotic to help fight swine respiratory disease ...
