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The Nutritive Value of Wood Charcoal for Pigs

Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station^,2

Abstract

1. The addition of charcoal to well balanced synthetic or natural rations at levels of 0.5 or 3 percent of the ration had no significant effect on growing-fattening pigs.
   
2. Mineral mix consumption was not increased by the inclusion of charcoal in the mix at a level of 15 percent.
   
3. Charcoal, such as was used in the feeding trials (hardwood No. 36), furnished significant amounts of calcium, manganese, iron and copper when fed at a level of 3 percent of grain ration. This may have been responsible for the lowered intake of mineral mix which was observed.
   
4. Softwood No. 80 charcoal contained higher amounts of certain essential minerals than hardwood No. 36 charcoal.
   

¹ The authors wish to express their appreciation to the National Mineral Feeds Association, Inc., 212 Equitable Bldg., Des Moines 9, Iowa for establishing a grant to support this project, and to the several charcoal manufacturers for furnishing adequate amounts of charcoal for this research.

² Contribution from the Department of Animal Husbandry, Journal Paper No. 653, Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, Lafayette, Indiana.