Nutrition

Effect of Ergot-Contaminated Barley on GrowingFinishing Pig Performance

Authors: Palmer J. Holden (Iowa State University) , Dean R. Zimmerman (Iowa State University)

Abstract

Barley samples from Allamakee County were used in a swine feeding study. Pigs fed a barley-corn and soybean meal (SBM) diets containing up to 0.18% ergot (1.62 ppm ergot alkaloids) performed similarly to pigs fed a basal corn-SBM diet. In general, the level of ergot contamination in the final diets was insufficient to depress the performance of growing and finishing pigs.

Keywords: ASL R1482

How to Cite: Holden, P. J. & Zimmerman, D. R. (1998) “Effect of Ergot-Contaminated Barley on GrowingFinishing Pig Performance”, Iowa State University Animal Industry Report. 1(1).