Swine Diet Manipulation to Minimize Environmental Impacts
The trend toward intensive swine production has raised concerns about concentrated production of manure. These concerns are challenging pork producers to adopt not only improved manure ...
Phosphorus Reduction in Swine Manure and Pig Performance by Using Dietary Phytase
Phytase addition to swine diets reduces the phosphorus levels in the swine manure. The addition of the phytase into the swine diets did not increase the cost of the diets, nor was pig p ...
LPES Lesson 10: Reducing the Nutrient Excretion and Odor of Pigs Through Nutritional Means
Animal production involves the feeding and care of animals to obtain usable end products, such as meat or milk. Since the efficiency with which animals use nutrients is less than 100%, ...
LPES Lession 11: Using Dietary and Management Strategies to Reduce the Nutrient Excretion of Poultry
Concerns for the environment and water quality have prompted greater scrutiny of poultry feeding and management practices. Nationwide, poultry producers are faced with new regulations o ...
Feed and Animal Management For Swine
Swine operations may include a complete farrow to finishing unit, or various combinations of separate units for feeder pig production, finishing pigs or the breeding herd. Distinctly di ...
Feed and Animal Management For Poultry
Commercial poultry operations involve four types of birds, broiler chickens (meat producing), layer (table egg ) chickens, turkeys and ducks that differ greatly in size and their nutrie ...