Short Communication: Enhanced distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) has greater concentration of digestible and metabolizable energy than DDGS when fed to growing and finishing pigs

Soares, J. A., Singh, V., Stein, H. H., Srinavasan, R. and Pettigrew, J. E. 2011. SHORT COMMUNICATION: Enhanced distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) has greater concentration of digestible and metabolizable energy than DDGS when fed to growing and finishing pigs. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 91: 663–667. To better use distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) for non-ruminants, some of the fiber may be removed. The “elusieve” process removes approximately 10% of DDGS material, mostly fiber, yielding enhanced DDGS (E-DDGS). An experiment was conducted to compare the DE and ME in E-DDGS to those in DDGS when fed to growing and finishing pigs. Overall, E-DDGS has greater DE, ME and MEn than DDGS.