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Digestible and metabolisable energy values of coconut meals of different oil contents in the diets of pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2017

P.J. Thorne ,
J. Wiseman  and
D.J.A. Cole
P.J. Thorne
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture and Horticulture, University of Nottingham School of Agriculture, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leics. LE12 5RD
J. Wiseman
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture and Horticulture, University of Nottingham School of Agriculture, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leics. LE12 5RD
D.J.A. Cole
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture and Horticulture, University of Nottingham School of Agriculture, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leics. LE12 5RD
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Extract

Coconut meal is a by-product of oil extraction from dried coconut kernel or copra. It is a highly variable material which, in practice, may contain from almost 0% ether extract (EE) when the oil has been solvent extracted to around 20% EE when the least efficient mechanical extraction methods are used. The trial reported here examined the effect of processing which produced meals of varying levels of residual oil, on subsequent dietary energy values.

Five coconut meals (A-E) and one sample of unprocessed copra (F) were used as a basis of the dietary treatments. Sample A was a solvent extracted meal and samples B-E were all extracted by mechanical means. Analysis of the samples is shown in Table 1.

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Growing Pigs
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1984 , March 1984 , pp. 57
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1984

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