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Effects of Feeding Dried Cashew Apple Pulp on Zootechnical and Economic Performances of Local Pigs on Station in The South of Senegal

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Title Effects of Feeding Dried Cashew Apple Pulp on Zootechnical and Economic Performances of Local Pigs on Station in The South of Senegal
 
Creator Ayssiwede, Simplice Bosco
Atchiwassa, Sodjinin
Ossebi, Walter
Michihoun, Gael Sabin
Assani, Bilkiss V. M.
Missohou, Ayao
 
Subject Diets
Dried cashew apple pulp
Local pig
Zootechnical performances
Profit
 
Description This work carried out in Casamance region aims to evaluate the zootechnical and economic performances of diets containing dried cashew apple pulp (CAP) for local pigs. Conducted from December 2022 to April 2023, the trial involved 84 local piglets (including 39 castrated males) aged 3 to 5 months and weighing 11 kg average live weight (ALW). These piglets were randomly divided into 4 batches of 21 subjects each, subdivided into 3 replicates of 7 subjects, corresponding respectively to four (4) iso-nutritional dietary treatments, CAP0 (control), CAP10, CAP15 and CAP20 containing respectively 10, 15 and 20% of CAP, for fattening pigs. Raised in permanent confinement at 1.4 m2/pig, the piglets were identified, dewormed and fed ad libitum with these diets, all presented in meal form, and watered with tap drinking water. ALW, average daily gain (ADG), feed intake (FI), feed conversion ratio (FCR), carcass weights and dressings (CW and DC), and profit margins obtained per dietary treatment were processed and subjected to a one-factor ANOVA, completed by Duncan's posthoc test at 5% threshold. The results revealed no significant difference (p˃0.05) between the ALW, ADG and CW of pigs from different dietary treatments. The DFI of subjects in CAP0 and CAP15 were similar, but significantly (p<0.05) higher than those of CAP10 and CAP20 in contrast to the FCR. The production costs and net profits per fattening pig of CAP-based diets were also similar, but significantly lower and better than those of CAP0. Feed cost and piglet purchase accounted for the largest share of these production costs. Economically, selling CW resulted in a loss for all dietary treatments contrary to pig selling based on LW. It was concluded that CAP can be incorporated up to 20% in the diet of fattening pigs without affecting their zootechnical and economic performance.
 
Publisher Animal Nutrition Society of India
 
Date 2024-06-03
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAN/article/view/145425
 
Source Indian Journal of Animal Nutrition; Vol. 41 No. 1 (2024)
2231-6744
0970-3209
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAN/article/view/145425/54697
 
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