Effects of the Duration of Liquid Feeding on Performance and Nutrient Digestibility in Weaned Pigs
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Abstract
A total of 72 castrated, crossbred (Landrace×Yorkshire) piglets (5.7±0.7 kg BW) were allotted to one of three treatments including: a dry crumbled feed fed for 40 days; liquid feed provided for 10 days followed by dry crumbled feed for 30 days; and liquid feed provided for 20 days followed by dry crumbled feed for 20 days.Liquid feed was produced fresh each day by mixing water with dry crumbled feed at a ratio of 3:1.Pigs fed liquid feed for 10 days had a higher weight gain during the first 10 days (+16.8%;p = 0.01) and over the entire experimental period (+4.9%; p = 0.07) than pigs offered dry feed.Pigs fed liquid feed for 20 days also had a higher weight gain during the period from d 0 to 10 (+12.8%;p = 0.01), from d 10 to 20 (+8.5%; p = 0.06) and from d 0 to 20 (+9.7%; p = 0.01) than pigs offered dry feed.Pigs fed liquid feed for the first 10 days had higher feed intakes from d 0 to 10 (+22.6%;p = 0.01) and from d 0 to 40 (+5.3%;p = 0.02) than pigs offered dry feed.Pigs fed liquid feed for the first 20 days had a higher feed intake from d 0 to 10 (+21.8%;p = 0.01), from d 10 to 20 (+10.6%;p = 0.06), from d 0 to 20 (+14.6%;p = 0.01) and from d 0 to 40 (+6.6%;p = 0.02) than pigs offered dry feed.Feed conversion from d 0 to 40 tended to be poorer for pigs fed liquid feed during the first 20 days (p = 0.08) indicating an increase in feed wastage with liquid feeding.Nutrient digestibility at day 10 was unaffected by dietary treatment.However, at day 30, pigs fed liquid feed for 10 days had higher digestibility of dry matter (p = 0.08), energy (p = 0.10), crude protein (p = 0.03) and neutral detergent fibre (p = 0.05) than pigs fed liquid feed for 20 days.In conclusion, liquid feeding for 10 or 20 days increased the performance of weaned pigs during the specific time period that liquid feeding occurred but there were no carry over effects into subsequent production periods.(Asian-Aust.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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