TY - JOUR T1 - The Impact of Individual Daily Feeding on Animal Performance and Excretion of Nitrogen and Phosphorous in Growing Pigs AU - Zhang, Guo-Hua AU - Pomar, Candido AU - Yang, Gong-She JO - Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances VL - 10 IS - 22 SP - 2980 EP - 2985 PY - 2011 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1680-5593 DO - javaa.2011.2980.2985 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2011.2980.2985 KW - Individual daily feeding KW -traditional three-phase feeding KW -growing pigs KW -nitrogen KW -phosphorus intake KW -feed cost AB - The effect of feeding growing pigs with a traditional three-phase or with an individual daily feeding system on growth performance, the excretion of nitrogen and phosphorus was studied in two pens of twenty pigs each. There is no significant difference in average daily feed intake between these two groups (p = 0.11) but the average daily lysine intake is lower significantly (-21.9%) in individual daily feeding group (p<0.001). Compare to the three-phase groups, the protein intake during the experiment period was 13.4% less in the pigs fed with individual daily diet (p = 0.01), however with a greater ADG (+5.3%, p = 0.29). Individual daily feeding pigs reduced nitrogen and phosphorus intake, respectively by 17.0 and 9.7% and the corresponding excretions were reduced, respectively by 40.5 and 31.2%. In conclusion, the individual daily feeding method is an effective method that can reduce the intake of nitrogen and phosphorus and then reduce the nitrogen and phosphorus excretion and the feed cost. ER -