Effect of Source of Pig, Housing System, and Receiving Diet on Performance of Purchased Feeder Pigs

Authors

M. C. Brumm, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
E. R. Peo, Jr., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
S. R. Lowry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
A. Hogg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

1982

Comments

Published in the Journal of Animal Science 55 (1982), pp. 1264-1271. Copyright © 1982 American Society of Animal Science. Used by permission.

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of source of pig, housing system and receiving diet on performance of purchased feeder pigs. Pigs purchased from distant auction markets (DM) gained slower for the first 13 d post-arrival (P<.01, trials 1 and 2) than pigs of similar size purchased from local, one-owner sources (LS).