What are the advantages of adding bran to pig feed?

Wheat bran is an important feed ingredient in China's traditional pig farming, just with the development of modern farming bran in the feed role is getting lower and lower, although more than replaced by some other raw materials, but the bran added to the feed for the pigs still has its unique advantages:

1, cheap, bran refers to the wheat milled into flour after the residue, mainly wheat hulls, so there are Some places are called bran some places are called wheat bran. Bran as a by-product of wheat processing is very cheap, relative to other feed ingredients have an inherent price advantage.

2, suitable for sows, the main component of bran is crude fiber, crude fiber content can reach 12%, in addition to the bran itself is a traditional Chinese medicine, has the role of diarrhea, so the bran added to the sow feed can promote sow gastrointestinal tract peristalsis, can relieve and prevent constipation.

Additionally, bran contains almost no energy material, and pigs basically can't digest bran, so sows can get a sense of satiety after eating bran, reducing the amount of feed for sows, which is conducive to the control of sows during gestation, and also protects the gastrointestinal tract of the pigs.