EFFECT OF WET FEEDING ON FATTENING I PIGS PERFORMANCE

The experiment used 240 Landrace pigs assigned to 3 groups. The control group received ground dry feed; group 1 received wet feed 1/1, while group 2 received pelleted feed. The compound feeds were assayed with the Weende method. Compared to the control group, the 60 kg weight was reached three days later by the animals with wet feeding and four days earlier by the animals receiving pelleted feed. At the wet feeding, the average daily gain was 484 g, near control group (p ≤ 0.05) and the feed conversion ratio was 8.9% lower. Wet feeding is an economic alternative for pig feeding during heir first fattening stage, improving the local microclimate by the generation of less powders