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Evidence of genetic variability for digestive efficiency in the growing pig fed a fibrous diet.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Aug 2013
Noblet J, Gilbert H, Jaguelin-Peyraud Y, Lebrun T
Abstract excerpt
Energy digestibility in the growing pig increases with BW increase and may differ between breeds of pigs or between lines selected on criteria other than digestion. However, little is known about the variability in energy digestibility within a line or a breed of pigs, especially when fibrous diets are fed. For this purpose, 20 Large White castrated male growing pigs originating from four boars (five per boar),...
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