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Pig Research at the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2016

I. A. M. Lucas
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There has been a rapid expansion of pig research at the Rowett Institute during the last two years, and the object of this paper is to give some idea of our facilities, the kind of work we are doing, and a few of our recent findings.

We are now able to feed individually up to 206 growing pigs at any one time, but only rarely will more than 150 be fed individually whilst about the same number will be fed in groups.

Our permanent fattening house has four farrowing pens which are at the moment being used for baby pig experiments. It has three pens in which 36 pigs are individually fed and four pens somewhat similar to those used by the late Mr. McGuckian in Ireland. These house eight groups of seven pigs, which can, if we wish, be individually fed in a ‘ dining room ’ containing sixteen individual feeding compartments.

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Current Research in Scotland
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production , Volume 1953 , Issue 2: Eighteenth Meeting , March 1953 , pp. 86 - 93
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1953

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