Ogle, Brian
- Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Two on-station trials and a feeding experiment were conducted at the experimental pig farm, Can Tho University, to determine the intake and the apparent digestibility of fresh chopped and whole water spinach (WS) by pregnant sows. The effect on reproductive performance of feeding WS to local Ba Xuyen and Large White sows was also evaluated. The first (intake) trial included 6 multi-parity local Ba Xuyen and 6 Large White sows. The sows were mated by AI with the same Large White boar. The trial was designed as 3 multiple Latin Squares with two diets for each breed as follows: 1 kg DM concentrate/day plus whole water spinach (WWS) adlibitum; 1 kg DM concentrate/day plus chopped water spinach (CWS) adlibitum. For the Large White and Ba Xuyen sows, respectively, results were: fresh WS intake per sow/day, 7.3 and 6.1 kg (604 and 504 g DM) and % of DM intake from WS 37.6 and 33.4% (P
Keywords
Apparent digestibility; Intake; Piglet; Reproductive performance; Sow breed; Water spinach
Published in
Livestock Research For Rural Development
2010, volume: 22, number: 4
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Animal and Dairy Science
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/132459