Performance of Grower Pigs Fed Green Berseem with Different Level of Garbage

摘要

A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of different levels of green berseem.kitchen waste and concentrate feeding on growth and carcass traits in growing and finishing pigs.The experiment was conducted in two phases using 24 LWY piglets of about 3 months age.The performance of growing piglets was studied for 2 months.The details of feeding regimens in different groups were as follow,group Ⅰ:10％ green berseem +90％ concentrate only,group Ⅱ: 10％ green berseem +25％ kitchen waste + 65％ concentrate,group Ⅲ: 10％ green berseem +50％ kitchen waste +40％ concentrate and group Ⅳ: 10％ green berseem +75％ kitchen waste+15％ concentrate.There was no significant difference between different treatment groups with respect to overall DM intake,body weight gain and FCR.However,better performance was observed for group Ⅳ.In conclusion,substitution of concentrate for different levels of kitchen waste along with 10％ green berseem improves the DM intake,growth and FCR than that of the control diet.Significantly (P＜0.01)lowest cost of total feed intake and cost per kg live weight gain was observed for group IV followed by groupⅢ,ⅡandⅠ.Thus,green berseem could be incorporated up to 10％ and kitchen waste up to 75％ of total dry matter intake to make the feed econoruical and without affecting the performance of the grower pigs adversely.