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Feeding requirements during drought.
Since swine rations rely on grain, when grain supplies are limited, you as a producer
must work out the most economical ration for your animals. Remember, if you use a ration
low in energy, your hogs will gain weight more slowly and be home longer. You will have to
watch closely how much less supplement you use so you don't waste grain by feeding longer
than is necessary. You will probably still rely on wheat, oats, and barley for rations,
although you could use pelleted screenings in some of your rations.
You can use wheat as the major grain in hog rations. If used alone, as finely ground,
it does "paste up" in the mouth. Also, because it is high in energy, limit wheat
or the pigs become overfat. So you will probably be better off mixing it with another
grain such as oats. Oats are much lower in energy than wheat and need to be supplemented
with a feed higher in energy. A 50:50 mixture of wheat and oat is equivalent in feed value
to barley.
You can use pelleted screenings as up to 25 per cent of rations for growing pigs. Avoid
them in sow rations because they may contain large amounts of unprocessed canola and wild
mustard seeds which may cause reproductive problems.
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to Raising Pigs : Facilities, Breed Selection, Management (Storey Animal Handbook) -
by Kelly Klober - Publication date: February 1998
- An
Outline of Swine Diseases : A Handbook - by Ross P. Cowart - Publication Date:
September 1, 1995 - List: $19.95
- Controlled
Reproduction in Pigs (Controlled Reproduction in Farm Animals, 3) - by Ian R. Gordon -
Publication Date: March 1997 - List: $80.00
This book is the third in a set of four providing a series on controlled reproduction
in farm animals. The aim of the series is to provide a general review of the literature
dealing with the different ways in which reproduction in the major farm mammals can be
controlled and manipulated. The four volumes are effectively an expanded and new edition
of a previous work, Controlled Breeding in Farm Animals (Pergamon Press, 1983).
- Diseases
of Swine - by Allen D. Leman, Barbara E. Straw, William L. Mengeline - Publication
Date: November 1994 - List: $129.95
- Manual of
Pig Production in the Tropics - by H. Serres, Julian Wiseman (Translator) -
Publication Date: December 1992 - List: $45.00
- Nutrient
Requirements of Swine - by National Research Council - Publication Date: 1988 - List:
$14.95
- Pictorial
Anatomy of the Fetal Pig - by Stephen G. Gilbert
- Pigs : A
Guide to Management - by Neville Beynon
- Pork
Production Systems : Efficient Use of Swine and Feed Resources - by Wilson G. Pond,
Jerome H. Maner, Dewey L. Harris
- Raising
Pigs Successfully - by Kathy Kellogg, Bob Kellogg - Publication Date: September 1,
1985 - List: $9.95
- Small-Scale
Pig Raising - by Dirk Van Loon, Dick Van Loon - Publication Date: August 1, 1983 -
List: $14.95
- Swine
Housing and Equipment Handbook - by Midwest Plan Service Engineers - Publication Date:
June 1982 - List: $8.00 + $1.35 special surcharge
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