Her research at the Prairie Swine Research Centre will be presented during the Saskatchewan Pork Industry Symposium 2021 set for November 16-17 via Zoom.
She said monogastrics pigs don't have a large enteric output of greenhouse gases so the carbon footprint is already relatively small but about 60 percent of that footprint comes from the diet.
What we were really interested in is, with the increased use of by-products which are high in fibre, would that have an effect on the enteric output of greenhouse gasses from the pig?
That's those gasses that are produced during digestion, is really small to begin with but we wanted to make sure even though it's small that it's not increasing.
