Corn gluten feed as a principal feed ingredient for gestating swine: effects on long term reproductive performance and energy, lysine and tryptophan utilization

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1989
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Honeyman, Mark
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Dean R. Zimmerman
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Corn gluten feed (CGF) was evaluated as the primary energy and protein source for gestating sows. Eighty multiparous sows were assigned to three treatment groups for the three-parity trial. The gestation treatment diets were: corn-soybean meal fed at 1.8 kg · d[superscript] -1 (control), CGF plus soybean meal fed at 2.3 kg · d[superscript]-1 (CGF-low), and CGF plus soybean meal fed at 2.6 kg · d[superscript] -1 (CGF-high). The CGF diets (>92% CGF) were based on the assumption that CGF had 80% and 70% the energy of corn, respectively. Treatment diets were increased 25% during winter. Sow reproductive performance was excellent for all treatments. Total live pigs at birth and 21 d for the three parities were not significantly different. Pigs from CGF-fed sows were smaller at birth (P <.05), but subsequent pig weights did not differ. For the third parity, the CGF-low sows weighed less at breeding (P <.10), before farrowing (P <.01), after farrowing (P <.05), and at the subsequent breeding (P <.01). On the basis of the sow weights, CGF is equal to 70% the energy value of corn for sows;The energy value of CGF and apparent digestibility coefficients (ADC) of its components were determined using seven multiparous sows (d 60-75 gestation) in metabolism stalls. The diet was 97% CGF fed at 2.6 kg · d[superscript]-1. Determined CGF energy values were: 3552 kcal/kg DE, (12.5% CV), 3308 kcal/kg ME, (16.9% CV), and 3244 kcal/kg ME[subscript] n (14.6% CV). CGF ADCs were: N, 72.3% (27 SEM); EE, 35.4% (29 SEM); NDF, 51.6% (22 SEM); ADF, 47.4% (21 SEM); cellulose, 54.3% (16 SEM); and hemicellulose, 51% (26 SEM);Two trials, each with six multiparous sows in 6 x 6 Latin square designs, were used to determine the required LYS or TRP supplementation of CGF diets. Sows (d 30 gestation) in metabolism stalls were fed 2.6 kg · d[superscript]-1 (97% CGF). Graded levels of supplemental amino acids in Trial 1 were 0,.55, 1.09, 1.65, 2.19, and 2.73 g · d[superscript]-1 LYS and in Trial 2 were 0,.28,.59,.91, 1.19, and 1.50 g · d[superscript]-1 TRP. In Trial 1, increasing LYS intakes decreased (P <.10) urine urea N (quadratic) and fasting plasma urea N (linear) and increased (P <.10) postprandial plasma LYS (quadratic). In Trial 2, increasing TRP intakes linearly increased fasting (P <.01) and postprandial (P <.0001) plasma TRP. CGF can meet or nearly meet the LYS, TRP, and energy needs of gestating sows and current values underestimate the contribution of CGF in sow diets.

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