EFFECT OF WET FEEDING ON FATTENING I PIGS PERFORMANCE

Abstract

The experiment used 240 Landrace pigs assigned to 3 groups. The control group
received ground dry feed; group 1 received wet feed 1/1, while group 2 received
pelleted feed. The compound feeds were assayed with the Weende method. Compared to
the control group, the 60 kg weight was reached three days later by the animals with
wet feeding and four days earlier by the animals receiving pelleted feed. At the wet
feeding, the average daily gain was 484 g, near control group (p ≤ 0.05) and the feed
conversion ratio was 8.9% lower. Wet feeding is an economic alternative for pig
feeding during heir first fattening stage, improving the local microclimate by the
generation of less powders.