Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Comprehensive evaluation of lysine digestibility in DDGS
June 7, 2011By Yanhong Zhang
Lysine is the most variable of the indispensable amino acids in dried distiller’s grains with solubles (DDGS), and it has the lowest digestibility in swine feed. In order to search for an...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Methods of Restoring Carcass Firmness and Other Post-Harvest Traits in Finishing Pigs Fed a High Level of Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS)
March 30, 2011By G.L. Cromwell
The large demand for corn for ethanol production has resulted in marked increases in corn prices and a resulting increase in feed costs for swine producers. The large amounts of distillers dried...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Effect of selection for feed efficiency during the growing period on sow feed efficiency and reproductive performance
March 14, 2011By Jack C.M. Dekkers
Feed efficiency is increasingly important because of the high cost of feed. Residual feed intake (RFI) is a measure of feed efficiency that is defined as the difference between observed feed...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Critical evaluation of commercially available enzymes, and processing on nutrient digestibility of swine diets containing DDGS
February 24, 2011By Brian Kerr
Application of enzymes in an effort to improve nutrient digestibility of plant-based feed ingredients for swine and poultry has been studied for decades. Essentially, an enzyme(s) must match the...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Effects of exogenous phytase on the apparent total tract digestibility of energy and phosphorus, and on the standardized total tract digestibility of P in corn, DDGS, HP DDG, and corn germ
February 21, 2011By Hans Stein
The objective of this research was to measure the effects on energy and P digestibility of adding 4 levels of exogenous enzyme to corn, DDGS, HP DDG, and corn germ when fed to growing pigs. The 4...
Animal Science
Evaluation of two mycotoxin binders as a means to reduce the adverse effects of vomitoxin on the performance and health in growing/finishing pigs
February 15, 2011By John Patience
The 2009 corn crop was one of the worst in recent memory in terms of overall quality and the incidence and levels of mycotoxin contamination. It was a very serious concern to the Iowa pork...
Animal Science - Breeding & Genetics
Genetic improvement of farrowing rate and non-productive days in swine by selection for litters per sow per year
December 1, 2010By John Mabry
The first purpose of this study was to determine the genetic and phenotypic correlations between maternal and post-weaning traits from a seedstock swine breeding system. The post-weaning traits...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Fate of Lysine and Phytate During the Bioprocess of Making DDGS
November 15, 2010By Yanhong Zhang
PART AThe objective of this study is to monitor the changes in lysine concentration and reactivity through the unit operations and processes that are used to make fuel ethanol. The...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Impact of DDGS Particle Size on DM, Energy, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Digestibility in Diets for Growing Pigs
October 22, 2010By G.C. Shurson
The objectives of this study were to determine DE and ME content, and evaluate the effect of different particle sizes of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) at a 30% dietary inclusion...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluation of Choice White Grease and Beef Tallow to Improve Pork Quality when Pigs are Fed Distillers Dried Grains
August 24, 2010By Brian Richert
The feeding of dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) is becoming a common place in the swine industry to help reduce feed costs. However, there can be reduced growth performance, carcass...
