Author : Kristopher A. Bottoms
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Book Synopsis Establishing an Ideal Inclusion Rate of Fermented Soybean Meal and Sodium Butyrate on Growth Performance, Complete Blood Cell Count, and Nutrient Utilization in Nursery Pigs by : Kristopher A. Bottoms
Download or read book Establishing an Ideal Inclusion Rate of Fermented Soybean Meal and Sodium Butyrate on Growth Performance, Complete Blood Cell Count, and Nutrient Utilization in Nursery Pigs written by Kristopher A. Bottoms and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To evaluate increasing levels of sodium butyrate (SB) in nursery diets on growth performance (Experiment 1 & 2), complete blood cell count (Experiment 2), and the optimal level of fermented soybean meal for maximum performance in weanling pigs (Experiment 3), weaned pigs were blocked with initial body weight (BW) and allotted to dietary treatments. Treatments were: 1) Control (C) moderately complex corn-soybean-meal based supplemented with 0.05% benzoic acid (BA), but devoid of SB; C diet supplemented with 0.05%, 0.10%, or 0.15% SB (Experiment 1). Treatments in experiment 2 consisted of 1) a moderately complex corn-soybean-meal based diet devoid of SB and BA (NC), 2) The NC diet supplemented with 0.5% BA, 3, 4 and 5) NC diet supplemented with 0.5% BA and 0.05%, 0.10% or 0.15% SB, respectively. Treatments in experiment 3 consisted of 1) a fermented soybean protein-poultry by-product diet (C), 2, 3, and 4) C diet was replaced with 5%, 10%, or 15% fermented soybean meal, respectively (FSBM; Experiment 3). Blood was collected at the beginning and end of each phase to determine complete blood cell count (Experiments 2 & 3). Data were analyzed by MIXED procedures of SAS (SAS Inst., Cary, NC) with dietary treatment as a fixed effect, while facility by treatment interactions (Experiment 1 & 2) and initial BW blocks as random effects (all experiments). In exp. 1 & 2, increasing dietary SB increased weight gain (P.