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A note on the effect of sudden changes in the composition of the diet of growing pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

R. M. Livingstone
R. M. Livingstone
Affiliation:
The Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, AB2 9SB
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Summary

Two diets, one based on barley and white-fish meal and the other on oats, wheat and meat and bone meal, with similar concentrations of digestible energy, crude protein, lysine and methionine+cystine were used to investigate the effects of sudden changes in the composition of the diet on the performance of pigs growing from 32 kg live weight, over a period of 77 days.

The diets were given separately, alternated weekly with sudden changes from one diet to the other, or as a 1:1 mixture.

Changes in diet per se had insignificant effects on performance.

Type
Research Article
Information
Animal Production , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , June 1973 , pp. 315 - 317
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1973

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