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Single cereal diets for bacon pigs 1. The effects of diets based on barley, wheat, maize meal, flaked maize or sorghum on performance and carcass characteristics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

D. J. A. Cole ,
E. G. Clent  and
J. R. Luscombe
D. J. A. Cole
Affiliation:
Harper Adams Agricultural College, Newport, Shropshire
E. G. Clent
Affiliation:
Harper Adams Agricultural College, Newport, Shropshire
J. R. Luscombe
Affiliation:
Harper Adams Agricultural College, Newport, Shropshire
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Summary

Two experiments were carried out to compare the performance and carcass quality of pigs given diets based on barley, wheat or maize meal, and another two experiments comparing these cereals, flaked maize and sorghum. In general, differences in the utilization of feed for live-weight gain could be related to differences in the digestible energy content of the cereals used in the diet, although in some experiments pigs behaved atypically on individual diets. Flaked maize was consistently inferior to the other cereals in the efficiency of conversion of its digestible energy, possibly because of its poorer amino acid balance and its low levels of lysine and tryptophan in relation to energy. Differences between experiments in the performance of pigs fed on the various diets are also discussed. Differences between treatments in killing-out percentage and predicted lean percentage were small, and carcasses of pigs from all treatments were acceptable for bacon curing.

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Animal Production , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , August 1969 , pp. 325 - 335
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1969

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