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Lancaster Farwin*, Saturday, Dacawbar t, IM4-A3I spring of the year, recent technological breakthroughs have permitted the company to market the product in concentrate form, thereby permitting producers to use their own grain in formulating feed. The key to the product’s high level of available energy is its 16 percent fat content, more than twice the amount of fat contained in the company’s current leading hog feed. "Previously you’d have to pump a product like this," noted Har mon, adding that H.O. 2.6's one eighth inch pellet size incorporates well with grams with no separation problems. "Studies have shown that adding fat in the ration won't increase the fat cover on pigs if other nutrients are adjusted ac cordingly," said the researcher. The new supplement is a multi purpose feed for use in the growing and finishing phases, as well as in starting, farrowing and lactatmg rations. According to Harmon, H.O. 2.6 yields a nine percent improvement in feed efficiency and a four per cent improvement in weight gain during the growing-finishing period, when compared to the most efficient feeds currently on the market. In experiments during the starter phase at the company's research center, Purina resear chers noted a 10 percent increase in weight gain as well as a nine percent improvement in feed ef ficiency with the firm’s H.O. 2.6 Fast Start Chow. "This translates to two days less time in the nursery, or heavier pigs leaving the nursery in the same time period," said Punna’s manager of swine technical ser vices, Dr. Ray Washam. "This new product represents a great step forward in improving the performance of pigs in the nursery," said Washam, who added that only five death losses were recorded among the 957 pigs on test. According to product manager Dr. Bill Ragland, the cost of H.O. 2.6 products has been running about six percent above that of the firm's current line of hog chows for midwest hog producers. "But we feel the product stands on its own quite well," said Ragland, citing the feed's im provement in conversion rate and the producer s ability to move more animals through his facility in a shorter period of time. Harmon said that the company 's new line of H.O. 2.6 products is the culmination of years of study at the turn’s Gray Summit Research Farm located west of St. Louis. With its five-man team of researchers, and the capacity to individually feed and evaluate nearly 500 pigs, Purina claims to operate the largest swine nutrition research facility in the U.S.
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