The Effect of Graded Levels of Alfalfa and Aureomycin upon Growing-Fattening Swine

Effect of Feeding-Fasting Interval on Finishing Pigs: Weight Gain, Feed Utilization and Physical and Chemical Carcass Measurements

“…The weight of the empty stomach and intestinal tract was significantly increased with increased fasting interval (table 4). This increase is in agreement with other reports involving energy restriction by use of diets high in crude fiber (Coey and Robinson, 1954;Bohman, Hunter and McCormick, 1955;Merkel et al, 1958). The hyperphagia shown by intermittently starved rats (Holeckova and Fabry, 1959;Fabry et al, 1962) was associated with a marked hypertrophy of the gastric mucosa and musculature and increased weight of the empty gastrointestinal tract.…”

The digestion of complex carbohydrates in the large intestine of the growing pig: effects on nitrogen metabolism

“…The effect of dietary fiber upon empty intestinal weight is not clear from reports in the literature. In general, when significant differences in ADG were present among experimental diets, dietary fiber had an effect on empty intestinal weight (Bohman et , 1955;Kass et al, 1980a). In experiments similar to ours, however, in which no differences in ADG were observed (Hochstetler et al, 1959;Cunningham et al, 1961), dietary fiber did not have any effect on empty in testinal weight.…”

Diet supplementation of growing pigs raised in Coastal Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon) pasture lots

“…Chlortetracycline, included in the vitamin premix to provide 20 mg per kg of diet, could have been partly or totally responsible for the superior performance of pigs fed the complete diet (Bowman, Hunter and McCormich, 1955). Since an array of vitamins was included in the vitamin premix, it is not known which of them were responsible for the growth response.…”