NM 20. Liquid streptomyces solubles for pigs from weaning to slaughter

• M. Calderon ^[1] ; Paul Randel ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Puerto Rico System

     University of Puerto Rico System

     Puerto Rico

     
• Localización: Archivos Latinoamericanos de Producción Animal, ISSN 1022-1301, ISSN-e 1022-1301, Vol. 5, Nº. 3, 1997 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Proceedings XV ALPA meeting 1)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Two sets of three diets (starter and grower), composed mainly of maize, wheat middlings, soybean and tunafish meal and supplementary fat, and incorporating 0, 0.45 and 0.90 % of liquid streptomyces solubles (LSS) in the dry matter (DM), were fed to 36 Yorkshire pigs, of 9.46 kg mean initial liveweight (LW), paired in 18 pens and distributed among 6 blocks by initial LW, in a randomized blocks design. Relative to the control, the 0.45 and 0.90 % LSS diets resulted in increases in daily DM intake (P