date:May 13, 2015
ient. Corn germ meal is very good for sows, and we can also utilise quite a bit of these ingredients in growing pig diets.
Amino acid digestibility was reduced with the corn co-products compared with corn. Total amino acid digestibility was greater than 75 per cent in corn, with CGM-LCE, HFCG and LCE greater than 50 per cent. The amino acid digestibility in corn bran was less than 50 per cent.
Dr Stein explained: We observed that there are reductions in amino acid digestibility in all the co