Abstract
The effects of the use of fish meal in the nutrition of weaning piglets were observed. The trial included 80 weaned piglets of the same genotype (Large White x Danish Landrace) distributed in two feeding treatments. In the first period of the experiment, animals were fed during 10 feeding days, with a prestarter mixture containing 21.1/20.8% of the crude protein. The second period lasted for 25 days and piglets were fed with mixture containing also 21.0/21.1% of the crude protein. And in the final period of the experiment, which lasted 22 feeding days, the meals were formulated to contain 19.5/19.9% of the crude protein. The control group was fed with standard farm mixtures, while the trial group were fed with mixtures containing 4/3/2% of fish meal. The obtained results showed that the use of fish meal resulted in better average daily gain and feed conversion in starter period (27-51 day).
Highlights
Fish meal is a biproduct of animal origin and is a source of high-quality protein for animal feed
In the first period of the experiment, animals were fed during 10 feeding days, with a prestarter mixture containing 21.1/20.8% of the crude protein
Statistical significance was noted in ADG and FCR during starter period, trial group had better average daily gain (15.64%) and feed conversion (13.63%)
Summary
Fish meal is a biproduct of animal origin and is a source of high-quality protein for animal feed. According to the decision of the EU Commission 9/2001, all the mixtures which contain fish meal can only be produced in feed mills which don't produce or process any other feeds for ruminants or if they are specialized for this purpose. They need proper licence from authorised institutions (Sardi et al, 2005). This decision has led to some negative marketing in regard of using animal proteins in livestock feed, which led to further research of the possibility to excluding fish meal from mixtures for pigs and implementing some substitutes
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