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Study Challenges Value of Compensatory Feeding

2014-01-02 17:03:00| National Hog Farmer

Source: American Society of Animal Science Compensatory feeding is a method sometimes used by hog producers to increase weight gain of growing pigs. The method involves restricting the amount of feed available for a period of time and then overfeeding. This causes the animal to eat more, thereby increasing growth. read more

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