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The influence of fodder beet on growth performance and carcass characteristics of growing/finishing pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2017

P.A. Boyd ,
D.J.A. Cole ,
J. Wiseman  and
P.J. Thorne
P.A. Boyd
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture and Horticulture, University of Nottingham School of Agriculture, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leics, LE12 5RD
D.J.A. Cole
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture and Horticulture, University of Nottingham School of Agriculture, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leics, LE12 5RD
J. Wiseman
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture and Horticulture, University of Nottingham School of Agriculture, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leics, LE12 5RD
P.J. Thorne
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture and Horticulture, University of Nottingham School of Agriculture, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leics, LE12 5RD Overseas Development Natural Resources Institute, Culham, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
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In certain parts of the world the use of grain crops for animal feeding is limited and where there is competition for direct human use, alternative feeds must be considered. Root crops are a potential feedstuff for growing pigs in some situations and the objective of the present programme of work is to establish the nutritional value of these materials and to investigate factors which effect their utilisation in pig diets.

The high moisture content of root crops results in low nutrient density and the current experiment was designed to examine whether this resulted in any limitation on food intake and subsequent growth performance of growing pigs. This was achieved by formulating diets to contain different proportions of root crop and concentrate; these diets were isoenergetic/isonitrogenous when based on dry matter but varied in nutrient density when expressed on a fresh weight basis.

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Pig Growth and Nutrition
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1989 , March 1989 , pp. 37
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Production 1989

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References

Agricultural Research Council (1967) The Nutrient Requirements of Farm Livestock: No.3. Pigs. London: H.M.S.O. Google Scholar