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The horse-chestnut as a source of food for livestock. II. The value of alcohol-extracted horse-chestnut meal, water-extracted horse-chestnut meal and horse-chestnut residue as a partial substitute for cereals in the rations of bacon pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

H. E. Woodman  and
R. E. Evans
H. E. Woodman
Affiliation:
School of Agriculture, Cambridge
R. E. Evans
Affiliation:
School of Agriculture, Cambridge
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Two large-scale feeding trials have been carried out with the object of testing the validity of findings from pig digestion trials in respect of the nutritive value of horse-chestnut residue (a by-product of the manufacture of saponin and glucose from horse-chestnuts); and of alcohol-extracted and water-extracted horse-chestnut meals.

Trial I. The horse-chestnut residue was fed in two separate periods, the first from 50 to 100 lb. live weight, when the residue constituted 20 % of the total ration, and the second from 190 lb. to slaughter weight, when the allowance was increased to 30%. In both periods the residue replaced an equal percentage of ground oats in the control ration.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , January 1946 , pp. 42 - 55
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1946

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Wood, T. B. & Woodman, H. E. (1939). Rations for Live Stock. Bull. Minist. Agric, Lond., no. 48.Google Scholar