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Dietary factors affecting voluntary food intake in growing and finishing pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

S.A. Chadd
S.A. Chadd*
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture and HorticultureUniversity of Nottingham School of AgricultureSutton Bonington, Loughborough, LE12 5RD, U.K.
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Ad libitum feeding provides the opportunity for animal scientists to explore the genetic and environmental factors which determine voluntary feed intake, a greater knowledge of which could help increase potential appetite thereby raising the level at which the latter may limit productivity. A Braude Travel Scholarship was used to finance a visit to a number of research establishments based in the Netherlands, Denmark and France to observe the extent to which diet and related factors are examined through experimentation, the results of which may contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms of feed intake control. Major differences in the production systems encountered in these countries when compared with the UK include the greater emphasis given to current environmental issues, expression of dietary energy as NE, production of castrated males, heavier slaughter weights and associated export demands. Such factors substantially influence the direction taken by nutrition research programmes. Although the primary purpose of the study tour was the appraisal of dietary factors in relation to food consumption, such effects could not be considered in isolation from associated genetic, physiological and environmental aspects, hence their inclusion in this report.

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Pig Production
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1990 , March 1990 , pp. 52
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1990

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