An Attempt to Improve a Concentrate Mixture Composed of Yellow Corn, Beef Meal, Soybean Meal and Alfalfa Meal for Weanling Pigs in Drylot

Abstract

Two experiments in which 148 head of 30-pound weanling pigs were fed to a final weight of seventy-five pounds are reported. A basal concentrate mixture of ground yellow corn, beef meal, soybean meal, alfalfa meal, and salt was compared with the basal ration plus either hulled oats, dry skim milk or dried corn distillers' solubles. The data indicate that hulled oats contributed to the nutritive qualities of the basal mixture. The mixture which contained hulled oats produced significantly more rapid daily gains and also more economical gains than the basal mixture, or the basal mixture plus dry skimmilk or dried corn distillers' solubles. The addition of the amount of dry skimmilk and dried corn distillers' solubles fed in these tests, did not improve the nutritive properties of the basal concentrate mixture used for weanling pigs.