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Livestock-Based Farming Systems, Renewable Resources and the Environment |
Twelve crossbred male pigs with average initial body weight of 30kg were allocated randomly to 3 treatments with 4 replications in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD). The treatments were supplements to a basal diet of cassava root meal and ensiled taro foliage (leaves plus stems) with either protein-enriched rice at 10% of diet DM or fish meal at 5% of diet DM.
DM intakes were increased by protein-enriched rice and by fish meal. Compared with the control diet, fish meal and protein-enriched rice increased growth rate by 16.5 and 36.7%, respectively. There were no differences in DM feed conversion among treatments.
Key words: alcohol, by-product, fermentation, urea, yeast
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Figure 1: Relative intakes of DM from dietary ingredients by pigs fed a basal diet of cassava root meal, ensiled taro foliage with supplements of protein-enriched rice or fish meal. |
Figure 2: Live weight gain of pigs fed a basal diet of cassava root meal and ensiled taro foliage with supplements of protein-enriched rice or fish meal |
