Abstract
Feeding experiments were conducted with starting and growing-finishing pigs to determine the nutritive values of peanut meal for pigs, and digestion trials also were carried out using chromic oxide as an index.
The results were as summarized below.
The peanut meal could practically replace 1/2-1/3 of the soybean meal for a starter of 5 weeks in age and 100% for growing-finishing pigs, if the levels of amino acids such as lysine and methionine etc, were modified to meet the demands of the pigs. However, the TDN of the peanut meal was found to be 63.6%, which is inferior to that of soybean meal and, consequently, its feed conversion rate was lower than that of the latter. No significant difference was noted in the characteristics of the carcass.
