To increase flexibility of feed formulation, replacing more than half of SBM with field pea without reduced growth performance should be the aim. To date, such an aggressive replacement rate has not been reported
The hypothesis of the present study was that pigs offered diets containing up to 400 g field pea/kg and formulated to equal NE and SID amino acid content would have dietary nutrient digestibility and growth performance not different from pigs feda diet without field pea, starting 1 week after weaning. The objectives were to determine whether a dose response existed for apparent total tract digestibility coefficients (CATTD) of dietary gross energy (GE) and CP and growth performance of weaned pigs fed diets containing up to 400 g field pea/kg in substitution for 300 g SBM and 100 g wheat/kg.