FVMB Licence 2020: Most often, in the industrial complexes of fattening pigs, compound feeds (CoF) are administered in dry form. However, they can be administered in moist (wetted) form. What are the benefits of the latter?

Question

Most often, in the industrial complexes of fattening pigs, compound feeds (CoF) are administered in dry form. However, they can be administered in moist (wetted) form. What are the benefits of the latter?

Exciteful Elk · Accepted Answer

specific consumption (kg CoF/kg weight gain) increases

Exciteful Elk · Answer

favor the storage of fat in the body

Exciteful Elk · Answer

higher growth rate and better quality of the carcasses

Exciteful Elk · Answer

compound feeds are more easily distributed to animals

Exciteful Elk · Answer

favor the storage of minerals in the body

FVMB Licence 2020

Most often, in the industrial complexes of fattening pigs, compound feeds (CoF) are administered in dry form. However, they can be administered in moist (wetted) form. What are the benefits of the latter?

Specific consumption (kg CoF/kg weight gain) increases

Author