Nutritive Value of Rubber Seed (Hevea Brasiliensis) Meal: Utilization by Growing Pigs of Semipurified Diets in Which Rubber Seed Meal Partially Replaced Soybean Meal

Authors

• G. M. Babatunde, University of Ibadan
• W. G. Pond, Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center
• E. R. Peo, Jr., University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1990

Comments

Published in JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE 68 (1990), pp. 392-397. Copyright © 1990 American Society of Animal Science. Used by permission.

Abstract

Thirty-six four-way cross (Chester White x Landrace x Large White x Yorkshire) growing bmws and gilts were used to investigate the effects of replacing graded levels of protein from soybean meal with equivalent levels of protein from rubber seed meal in 16% CP semipurified diets on the performance characteristics, hematocrit, plasma metabolites and N utilization of pigs.