Locally Grown Crops and Immunocastration in Fattening Heavy Pigs: Effects on Performance and Welfare

This study aimed to explore dietary replacement soybean meal (SBM) with local pea seeds (PS-L) and the effects of surgically castrated (CM) or immunocastration (IM) in heavy male pigs, on growth performance, feeding behaviour, and tail and ear lesions. Four treatments were arranged factorially (2 ×...

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Published in:	Animals
Main Authors:	Immaculada Argemí-Armengol, Daniel Villalba, Laura Vall, Ramon Coma, Josep Roma, Javier Álvarez-Rodríguez
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2022-06-01
Subjects:	immunocastrated male heavy pig field pea protease inhibitors feeding behaviour
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/13/1629