A comparison of feeding growing pigs once or twice daily
- 1 May 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Agricultural Science
- Vol. 60 (3) , 389-391
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021859600011989
Abstract
1. A co-ordinated trial has been carried out at 17 centres to compare the effects on performance and carcass quality of feeding growing pigs once or twice daily.2. No significant differences were found between growth rate, efficiency of food conversion or length of pigs on the two treatments.3. Killing out percentage was on average 0·92% worse for the pigs fed once daily, a significant effect, probably because the pigs on the two treatments received different amounts of food at the last feed before slaughter.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Labour saving in feeding of fattening pigsThe Journal of Agricultural Science, 1956