The use of extruded chickpeas in diets for growing-finishing pigs
2006
Christodoulou, V. | Bampidis, V.A. | Sossidou, E. | Ambrosiadis, J. | Hucko, B. | Iliadis, C. | Kodes, A.
The effect of partial and total replacement of soybean meal (SBM) with extruded chickpeas and partial replacement of SBM with raw chickpeas on pig growth and carcass characteristics was determined in a 17-week experiment. Sixty growing-finishing pigs fed ad libitum were allocated to five dietary treatments of 12 animals each as follows: CKP0 (control), ECKP100 , ECKP200, ECKP300 and CKP100. The treatments ECKP100, ECKP200 and ECKP300 included 100, 200 and 300 kg/t of extruded (at 120 deg C for 20 s) chickpeas, respectively, the treatment CKP100 included 100 kg/t of raw chickpeas. Body weight (BW) gain linearly increased (P less than 0.05) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) linearly decreased (P less than 0.05) with the inclusion of increasing levels of extruded chickpeas. However, in both the growing and finishing period, there were no differences between the experimental groups in final BW, BW gain, daily feed consumption, FCR, and carcass yield traits. Partial replacement of SBM with raw chickpeas negatively affected (P less than 0.05) BW gain and DFC during the finishing period. Thus, extruded chickpeas can be used as an alternative protein source to SBM at inclusion levels up to 300 kg/t of diet.
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