Hog Nutrition
Formulating Diets For Carcass Quality
Hog NutritionFormulating Diets For Carcass QualityFormulating Diets For Carcass Quality
Feeding a diet with high levels of Distiller's Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) can provide significant economic benefits for pork producers. It also can result in a negative impact on carcass fat quality as measured by iodine value. Strategies such as withdrawing DDGS prior to harvest, formulating diets based on iodine level targets and possibly feeding reduced-oil DDGS may help improve carcass fat quality.
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