Hamlet Protein HP 800 Booster

Blood plasma and fishmeal are widely regarded as the best sources of protein for improving feed intake of weaned piglets. But their high price is a major drawback. A feeding trial at Leuven University in Belgium put HP 800 Booster to the test as an alternative to blood plasma. The findings have revealed similar performance and up to 15% feed cost savings when HP 800 Booster is introduced to piglet diets. By the end of the trial, the piglets were also more uniform in weight.

Starting at the age of 18 days, 160 weaned piglets received one of the following three diets for 22 days:

• Control – containing 5% blood plasma, 8.6% HP 300
• HP 800 Booster 1 – containing 2.5% blood plasma, 12.2% HP 800 Booster
• HP 800 Booster 2 – containing 1% blood plasma, 17.1% HP 800 Booster

They were then fed the same diet for 23 days.

Although feed intake was slightly lower with the HP 800 Booster diets than with the positive control containing 5% blood plasma, little difference was recorded in average daily weight gain – evidence that HP 800 Booster has an improved feed conversion ratio. Weight variance was reduced from 19% with the control to 13.1% and 15.8% with HP 800 Booster 1 and HP 800 Booster 2 respectively.

HP 800 Booster increased feed intake and gave a long-lasting improvement in average daily weight gain in a study of 238 weaned piglets at the University of Arkansas Animal Science Research Farm in the US1). Even when HP 800 Booster was no longer included in the diet, the study found that piglets fed the supplement at an earlier stage continued to gain more in weight. In the three-phase study, the university team demonstrated that feed intake increased with increasing doses of HP 800 Booster. Diets were formulated with 20% HP 300 from HAMLET PROTEIN and then to compare that with diets containing increasing amounts of HP 800 Booster. Piglets fed HP 800 Booster outperformed those fed both the positive and negative control diet2. During the first and second phase, the majority of the soy bean meal in the negative control diet was replaced with 20% and 15% of HP 800 Booster and/or HP 300, respectively. All piglets were fed a common diet in phase three. The results show that HP 800 Booster improved feed intake by 7% during the 37-day study compared to the negative control. At the same time, piglets fed HP 800 Booster weighed 0.9kg more than those fed the moderately complex positive control diet. Diets containing HP 300 also gave a better performance than the controls. Overall, the study revealed opportunities for feed cost savings of 16-17% (Based on US prices 04/2013, weighted average phase one and two).

When including HP 800 Booster in the creep feed or weaning diet it can replace the following:

• Spray dried porcine plasma, SDPP
• Porcine solubles, DPS
• Fish meal, FM
• Milk proteins
• Other animal proteins
• High quality potato protein
• High quality soy protein concentrate, SPC