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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2017
For over 50 years extrusion has been used as a method for processing human food. However during the last 10-15 years significant advances have been made in the development and application of extrusion technology, particularly in the pet and fish food industries. Extrusion may become economically advantageous and thus an strategy to be considered by feed manufacturers which applies to several farm livestock (Partridge and Gill, 1993). Cereals and oilseeds extruded mixtures based diets for young pigs fall into this category even though currently they are not commonly used by swine producers.
The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the effects on the performance and apparent faecal digestibility of weaned piglets of a diet with or without inclusion of an extruded mixture of 2 cereals (maize and wheat) and full-fat soyabeans.