Does lyso-lecithin improve piglet growth? Photo: Koos Groenewold
Does the inclusion of lyso-lecithin in diets make any difference to piglet performance? That was the question researchers at Canada’s Prairie Swine Centre set out to study. The inclusion of 10% (dietary fat) lyso-lecithin to high or low energy diets of weanling pigs had only modest effects on growth or feed conversion regardless of whether the diets contained 2, 4 or 6% tallow. Weaning is a stressful experience, in which a newly weaned piglet is abruptly transferred from a liquid milk diet, c
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