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Probiotics for Pigs: Less Manure, Better Health

Published: March 17, 2014
Summary
Pig producers would like to keep their costs down by supplementing livestock feed with dried distiller’s grains with solubles (DDGS) and other agricultural coproducts generated from biofuel production. But adding hard-to-digest fiber to livestock diets also increases the production of manure—never a good thing, especially when it threatens to exceed on-farm storage capacities. So&nbs...
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Dave Albin
Insta-Pro International
17 de marzo de 2014
Another approach - use high-quality, consistently-processed, highly-digestible ingredients. This is especially useful as DDGS, and perhaps soy hulls, will have variable nutrient compositions, and this variation could easily alter the effectiveness of any probiotic treatment.
Noni Mammatt
17 de junio de 2014
what can it do for pig that put on back fat?
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