Performance of Grower Pigs Fed Low Cost Farm-Gate Experimental Diets
Journal Title: International Journal of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
The feeding trial was designed to assess the performance of growing pigs (Hog, Boar, Gilt) fed with experimental diet. A total of ninety growing comprising off log, female and intact male respectively was offered each of the five treatment diet weekly. The experimental diet consist of cassava, palm kernel cake, waste corn flakes, soya bean meal, brewers dried grain Bone meal, premix and salt. Data was collected on weight gain, body weight, and feed intake, mortality rate. Data generated subjected to the Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and significantly difference means Separated by Duncan multiple test as stated by steel and Torrie (1960).
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