Grain Sorghum and Small Grains for Feeding Swine PDF Download

Author: Otho M. Hale
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Category : Grain as feed
Languages : en
Pages : 19

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Chemical analyses of five recently developed yellow-endosperm, grain sorghum hybrids reveal that lysine content ranged from 0,19% to 0,23%, crude protein content ranged from 9,81% to 10,0%, while gross energy values were essentially the same. Feeding trials of one of these grain sorghum hybrids, compared with corn, revealed that weight gains, average daily, feed intakes, and feed-to-gain ratios were similar(p>.05) for pigs fed either the grain sorghum diet or the corn diet. Results of a growing-finishing trial with swine fed weither a corn diet or a diet composed of lightweight grain sorghum (52 ib/bu) showed that feed efficiency was reduced (p=.05) in pigs fed the lightweight grain sorghum diet. When extra soybean meal and grease were added to the grain sorghum diet to male it similar to the corn diet in amino acids and energy, there was no significant difference in performance on the two diets. A palatability trial with weanling pigs fed diets containing either crushed wheat, ground wheat, equal parts of ground wheat and ground corn, or ground corn revealed that pigs consumed 52 percent more of the crushed wheat diet than all other diets combined. A second trial with pigs fed the same four diets throughout the growing-finishing perid provided evidence that pigs fed the crushed wheat diet required less feed (p