EFFECTS OF CORN DRIED DISTILLERS GRAINS FERMODIL ON CARCASS QUALITY OF FATTENING PIGS

Danail Kanev, Jivko Nakev

Abstract: In Agricultural Institute - Shumen was conducted a slaughter analysis on 28 Danube White fattened pigs of organized scientific-economic experiment with corn dried distillers grains (DDG). The experiment covered a period of 112 days, from 37 kg of live weight until the end of fattening - 110 kg of live weight. The
animals were divided into 3 groups of 10 pcs. The pigs in group І (control) were fed a compound feed without DDG. The animals from the other groups took similar components except for DDG, which was included to the rate of 100 g.kg-1 in the compound feed of group ІІ and to 200 g.kg-1 in that of group ІІІ. The
pigs from all three groups had identical intake of compound feed, metabolizable energy, protein and lysine and different of methionine + cystine, threonine and tryptophan, which is dependent on the amounts of DDG in the compound feeds. The inclusion of 100 and 200 g.kg-1 corn DDG Fermodil in the compound feeds
had no reliable effect and no negative impact on the carcass quality of the fattened pigs from the Danube White breed. The significant differences in terms of variation coefficients of carcass characteristics between the different groups require further research.

Keywords: carcass quality; DDG; fattening pigs

Date published: 2023-02-21