Effect Of Flavouring Creep Diet On Growth Performance Of Piglets.

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the effect of flavoured creep diets on the performance of piglets. Sixteen cross breed piglets (large white /landrace) at two weeks of age were housed in two individual pens provided with creep area, along with their sows. They were randomly divided into two treatments with 8 piglets per treatment. Each treatment was replicated twice . .. The first treatment was fed with vanilla flavoured diets at 0.5% inclusion level, while the second treatment was unflavoured creep diet The experiment lasted for 30 days and results showed that there was a progressive increase in body weight of all piglets. The mean values for the body weight were 5 .11 ± 0.64kg for unflavoured and 6.43 ± 0.31 kg for the flavoured diet, indicating a significant difference between the two treatments. Parameters that were studied include head size ± 0.35cm and 16.88 ± 0.29cm), the neck size (31.75 ± 1.21cm and 39.13 ± 0.81cm), the Abdominal diameter (23.63 ± 1.36cm and 25.25± 0.73cm), the Grith about (20.75 ± 0.36cm and 24.38 ± 0.49cm) Statistically there was difference between the flavoured and unflavoured creep diets in all the parameters i measured