Use of an enzyme with phytase activity in fatting young pigs

Abstract

Complete feeding is one of the decisive factors for achieving high animal productivity. Therefore, an essential task of modern pig breeding is to reduce costs by increasing the digestibility of digested feed nutrients by the animal's body. One of the significant ways necessary to solve the problem can be the additional inclusion of biologically active substances in the compound feed for farm animals, namely, modern enzyme preparations of a new generation. The animal organism needs them to increase the digestibility of nutrients supplied with food. Our study aims to study the effect of the Feedbest P5000 GT enzyme preparation as part of compound feed on the growth, development and feed costs of fattening young pigs. A scientific and economic experiment was conducted on young pigs of a large white breed aged 60 to 210 days to achieve this goal. For the investigation, four groups of young pigs, 12 heads each, were formed according to the principle of analogue groups, taking into account breed, sex, age, and live weight. They were keeping the animal group. The authors weighed every 30 days and took measurements of the animals. In addition, they considered the consumption of feed and leftovers for the next day to determine the effect of Feedbest P5000 GT on the growth and development of fattening young pigs. The use of the Feedbest P5000 GT enzyme preparation in compound feeds made it possible to increase the average daily gain in live weight of young pigs of the experimental groups by 4.8, 9.3 and 6.8% and reduce feed costs by 4.7, 8.6 and 6.5% compared to with the young of the control group. The best indicators were found in the animals of the 2nd experimental group, where the studied enzyme preparation was additionally introduced into the feed composition in the amount of 90 g/t.