By increasing enzyme activity in the stomach, this cooked and vacuum-coated pellet feed improves digestibility and increases absorption of N and P
by NORMAN DUNN
A Dutch co-operative is developing a hog feed using pellet cooking technology to produce a product claimed to improve all-round feeding hog performance with average daily liveweight gain of 844 grams and a 30 per cent improvement in feed conversion ratio in trials. At the same time, it is showing reduced emissions of phosphate and nitrogen in the manure.