Provimi: Reprofish piglet fishmeal research
To ensure economical production of pigs and poultry, and the current rise in fishmeal prices Provimi is emphasizing its new piglet research on fishmeal replacer: Reprofish.
Recent results indicate a significant improvement on average daily gain in a large scale piglet trial (see Table 1). This is in line with previous work done at the Provimi research farms worldwide.
Reprofish is based on Provisoy, the thermo-mechanical treated soybean meal that acts as an alternative protein source. Furthermore Reprofish is balanced on amino acids, carnitine and omega-3 to ensure the benefits as noticed from the inclusion of fishmeal.
| © | Fishmeal | Reprofish |
| No. of piglets© | 210 | 209 |
| Weight at start (kg) | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Final weight (kg)© | 12.5 | 13.0 |
| Daily gain (g) | 268a | 287b |
| Daily feed intake (g) | 328 | 333 |
| Feed conversion ratio | 1.23 | 1.17 |
©a,b Means within a row with different superscripts differ significantly (p<0.05)
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