Diet Formulation
Composition and Usage Rate of Feed Ingredients for Swine Diets
Publish Date: March 25, 2010
Proper diet formulation involves having accurate knowledge of the nutrient requirements of the pig and information about the energy and nutrient composition of available feed ingredients. In addition, it is important to realize that some feed ingredients possess inherent factors that will decrease pig growth and reproductive performance and/or impact carcass composition and quality if fed in excess.
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Conversion Factors for the National Swine Nutrition Guide
Publish Date: March 25, 2010
Several methods exist for expressing units of weight, concentration and volume in swine nutrition. The objective of this factsheet is to show how to perform unit conversions for weight (Table 1), concentration (Table 2) and volume (Table 3).
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