Extruded
mixture of sweetpotato and coprameal (ESPCM) as partial replacement
of corn in swine diet.
Roxas,
et al. (1998) of UPLB, conducted a study on ESCPM as replacement
of corn in swine diet. The ESPCM is composed of 70% sweet
potato meal and 30% copra meal that partially replaced 20% and
30% of corn in the ration. It has shown that ESPCM can replace
up to 30% of corn in the grower diets without significant depression
in feed intake, liveweight gain and feed efficiency. Feed
efficiency was slightly better in pigs receiving the highest amount
of ESPCM. ESPCM was equally palatable to the animals as
the yellow corn as shown by their similar feed intake in the ration.
Source:
PCARRD
Highlights 1998. p. 81.
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