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.