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Effect of straw bedding, crude protein content of cereals and of latitude in balancing daily rations of growing pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

R. Braude
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading
P. M. Lerman
Affiliation:
A.R.C. Statistics Group, Department of Applied Biology, University of Cambridge

Summary

Results of a co-ordinated trial carried out at twenty centres indicated that performance of growing pigs (20–90 kg) was not affected by straw bedding in pens, or by small differences in the protein content of barley meal which was used as the main cereal in the diet. Also, no adverse effects were observed when cereals only were fed in the morning and an appropriately balanced compound mixture was fed in the afternoon.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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