POTENTIAL OF MIXED FORAGES (CALOPONUMMUCOIDS AND PANICUM MAXIMUM) ON THE INTERNAL ORGAN CHARACTERISTICS OF PIGS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51791/njap.vi.6397Keywords:
Forage, pigs, Calopogonium mucunoides, Panicum maxcimumAbstract
A feeding trial was conducted to determine the nutritional potentials of combined fresh forages (Calopogonium mucunoides and Panicum maximum) on the internal organ characteristics of pigs. A total of 30 grower pigs averaged 18kg were used in 63 days feeding trial. Five diets which contained 0, 10, 15, 20 and 25% levels of the fresh forage respectively were formulated. Each diet formed a treatment which was fed to the pigs. Pigs were fed 4% of their body weight and the feed were given ad-libitum. Treatments were replicated thrice and each replicate contained two pigs in a completely randomized design.At the end of 63days trial, two pigs were randomly selected from each treatment, weighed, slaughtered, skinned and eviscerated and the organs weight taken, the organs investigated were the intestine, heart, liver, spleen, kidney and lung.Results showed that significant differences (P<0.05) were observed in most of the parameters investigated except the lungs, but these significant did not deviate from normal size of those organs that may be attributed to abnormally
