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Biofuel co-products as livestock feed - Opportunities and challenges

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Utilization of crude glycerin in beef cattle 159PERFORMANCE OF CATTLE SUPPLEMENTEDCRUDE GLYCERINUse of glycerin <strong>as</strong> a <strong>co</strong>mponent of cattle diets h<strong>as</strong> beenthe subject of several recently published studies <strong>co</strong>nductedin Europe, North America <strong>and</strong> Latin America. Pyatt, Doane<strong>and</strong> Cecava (2007) fed 0 or 10 percent crude glycerin indiets that were either 70 percent rolled maize with 10 percentdistiller’s grains, or 35 percent rolled maize with30 percent distiller’s grains <strong>and</strong> 15 percent soybean hulls.Glycerin decre<strong>as</strong>ed dry matter intake by approximately10 percent, but improved <strong>co</strong>nversion efficiency by 19 percent.Similarly, in a study by van Cleef et al. (2011b),<strong>feed</strong>ing 7.5 or 15% glycerin to finishing cattle depressed<strong>feed</strong> intake, but improved efficiency of gain (P

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