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The effect of antibiotic dietary supplements on the carcass measurements and dressing percentage of bacon pigs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 March 2009
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1. Certain carcass measurements (length, shoulder and mid-back fats, belly thickness and dressing percentage) made on a total of 402 bacon pigs from four antibiotic feeding trials have been analysed.
2. The length of the carcasses showed more variation between pens treated with various doses of penicillin than between control pens or pens treated with aureomycin. This greater variation in length was related to the greater variation in growth rate between the penicillin treatments. No differences in the mean lengths of control, penicillin and aureomycin treatments were found.
3. Back fat measurements and belly thickness showed no differences between aureomycin, penicillin and control treatments in overall tests.
4. Aureomycin consistently gave higher dressing percentages than penicillin. Animal protein also gave higher dressing percentages than vegetable protein, but no effect of vitamin B12 on this quantity was found.
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