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Preferential choice of diets differing in protein content by pigs selected for high or low lean growth rate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

N. D. Cameron
N. D. Cameron*
Affiliation:
Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9PS
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Testing several genotypes on one diet may impose nutritional constraints on growth of one or more of those genotypes. Use of a diet choice procedure may enable pigs to ‘choose’ the appropriate combination of the diets to attain the growth determined by their genotype. In an animal breeding context, the diet choice procedure offers the potential to increase the accuracy of predicting an animal’s genetic merit for performance test traits. In the few diet choice studies made with pigs heavier than 35 kg (e.g. Bradford and Gous, 1991), the animals have been of one genotype. Therefore, animals from the Edinburgh lean growth selection experiment (Cameron, 1994) provided the experimental resource to determine if between-selection line differences were enhanced by testing pigs on a diet choice procedure compared with testing on a single diet.

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BSAP Occasional Publication , Volume 20: Animal Choices , 1997 , pp. 111 - 112
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 1997

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References

Bradford, M. M. V. and Gous, R. M. 1991. The response of growing pigs to a choice of diets differing in protein content. Animal Production 52: 185–192.Google Scholar
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