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Effects of a reduction in the dietary level of non-essential nitrogen in the female growing pig on feed intake, growth and carcass characteristics according to energy concentration and energy substrate

Noblet, J.; Henry, Y.; Bourdon, D.

Annales de Zootechnie 29(2): 103-119

1980


Accession: 000873080

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In an experiment with 63 female pigs from 25 kg until slaughter at 100 kg liveweight, pelleted diets based on maize and soya bean oilmeal were given to appetite. The addition of 6.5% vermiculite reduced the digestibility of organic matter by 0.25%, energy 0.28% and nitrogen 0.76% for each 1% of dietary vermiculite.

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