THE EFFECT OF FARINOSE AND PELLET FEED ON PRODUCTION PARAMETERS OF WEANED PIGLETS
Etleva Veizaj-Delia1, Flutura Sala2
1Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania
2Agricultural Regional Directory of Durres< Albania
etlevade@yahoo.com
The feed proceesing used on monogastric animal such as pigs and poultry is one of the most studied fields. Pig production in Albania is extensive and hygiene conditions in pig stalls are far from the usual standards. The main objective of this study was to investigate the effects of pellet and meal feed on the performance parameters as body live weight (BLW), daily weight gain (DWG) and feed conversion ration (FCR) of pigs, taking into consideration the extensive pig production namely the conditions similar to the livestock farms in Albania. The utilization of pellet feed improved the growth parameters, the average live weight (kg), the daily weight gain (g/day) and the feed conversion ration (FCR), compared to the control group. During the experimental period, the group treated with the pellet feed had a higher average live weight, 0.7%, 3%, 4.4%, 7.4% respectively on the first, third, fifth and seventh week. The average daily weight gain had the same tendency: 0.4%, 11.3%, 10.4%, 22.6% higher to compare with control group. The pellet feed improved clearly the feed conversion ratio. Based on the achieved results in the present investigations, it could be concluded that the utilization of the pellet feed lead to an improvement of the production parameters in pigs, especially under the extremely extensive farm conditions like these in Albanian farms of pig production.
Keywords: weaned piglets; pellet feed; granulated feed; performance parameters
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