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Creamery Buttermilk and Commercial Buttermilk Feeds as Sources of Protein for Growing Pigs

Division of Animal Husbandry, University of Minnesota

Abstract

The comparative values of creamery buttermilk and the commercial buttermilk products, in the condensed and dried forms, is an interesting feeding problem. For growing pigs another protein supplement with which the dairy byproducts logically may be compared is tankage. The use of tankage, dried buttermilk, semisolid buttermilk, and creamery buttermilk as protein supplements in rations for pigs brings into a trial feeds which rank high as ration balancers.

Experimental Feeding

Two years' work with these feeds has been completed at the Minnesota Station. The first year's conditions were duplicated as nearly as possible the second year for the purpose of checking the accuracy of the results. In order that the question of vitamin supplies might not enter into the results, an abundance of rape forage was provided for each lot. Each year 4 lots of pigs, 10 in number, were fed from an initial weight of approximately 75 pounds to a final weight of 175 pounds per pig.