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Performance of crossbred pigs (Landrace × desi) fed on food waste*

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Title Performance of crossbred pigs (Landrace × desi) fed on food waste*
 
Creator SAIKIA, P
CHHABRA, A K
BHAR, R
PRAGATI, H
 
Subject Food waste; Growth; Pigs
 
Description Crossbred (Landrace×desi) pigs (36) were randomly distributed into 3 dietary treatments (T1, T2 and T3 diets) each having 12 pigs of 6 castrated male and 6 females. The pigs were fed on ad lib. control diet in T1; limited control diet (25% dry matter intake (DMI) of T1) along with ad lib. food waste (FW) collected from student’s hostel and air force mess in T2 and ad lib. FW in T3. A digestibility trial was conducted on 5 animals of each treatment. During the feeding trial, the CP% of food wastes ranged from 18.28 to 21.42 and CF% of food waste ranged from 2.14 to 6.11.Digestibility coefficient of CP was highest in T3, followed by T2 and T1. The difference of average daily gain (ADG) was significant among treatments, but comparable between T2 and T3. Feed (DM): gain was significantly lower in T3 followed by T2 and highest in T1. Digestible energy (DE) values (kcal/kg) of food waste based diets (T2 and T3) were significantly higher than the control diet (T1). But the DMI (g/d) was significantly lower in pigs fed on food waste based diets, which in turn increasing the feed conversion efficiency of pigs in T2 and T3. Carcass characteristics in terms of average back fat thickness (BFT), dressing percentage and loin eye area (LEA) were not affected by the dietary treatment. Likewise, differences of prime as well as minor cuts were insignificant. Duration of estrous cycles and age at puberty were also not affected due to feeding of FW. Thus, it can be concluded that nutritive value of food waste based diets was much higher than the concentrate mixture based diets, and this mixture could improve the feed: gain and carcass characteristics of pigs without any adverse effect.
 
Publisher Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture
 
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Date 2011-01-07
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/3099
 
Source The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences; Vol 79, No 8 (2009)
0367-8318
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/3099/1166
 
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