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Effects of Drinking Water Temperature and Environmental Enrichment on Performance and Nutrients Utilization in Weaned Piglets

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  • (Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition,Beijing 100193, China)

Online published: 2009-05-20

Abstract

One 2×2 factorial design trial was conducted to determine the effects of drinking water temperature (DWT: 11 or 30 ℃) and environmental enrichment (EE: no addition or addition) on performance and nutrients utilization in weaned piglets for 40 days. One hundred 30-day-old weaned piglets were randomly divided into control (DWT11-EE), warm water (DWT30-EE), EE (DWT11+EE), warm water and EE (DWT30+EE) group, and each group with 5 replicates of 5 pigs (3 boars and 2 gilts). The results showed that: (1) with EE drinking, 30 ℃ water significantly increased average daily water intake by 23.4% (P<0.05); DWT significantly decreased F/G (P<0.05); DWT and EE had marked interactions on average daily feed intake (ADFI) and average daily gain (ADG) (P<0.01); (2) DWT increased the apparent digestibility of phosphate (P) significantly (P<0.05). DWT and EE had significant interactions on the apparent absorptive amount of dry matter (DM), CP, ether extract, Ca and P (P<0.01). It was concluded that drinking 30 ℃ water increased feed conversion ratio and average daily water intake in the weaned piglets, and that drinking 11 ℃ water was suitable for weaned piglets with EE and drinking 30 ℃ water was suitable for weaned piglets without EE.[Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, 2009,21(5):640-644]

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TAN Lei,GU Xianhong* . Effects of Drinking Water Temperature and Environmental Enrichment on Performance and Nutrients Utilization in Weaned Piglets[J]. Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, 2009 , 21(05) : 640 -644 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2009.05.006

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