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Growth rate and meat quality
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Pigs are being identified and growth from weaning to slaughter recorded on an ongoing basis. This will continue until the target number of samples has been met. With the exception of pigs exhibiting a severe growth check due to poor health, the majority of animals on this trial have been slaughtered and evaluated by Autofom. Loins have been sent to the Pork Chain Unit at Bristol for meat quality analysis.
Delays in collecting data from health challenged pigs were an inevitable and expected problem. However, the very high mortality rate among identified sick pigs has delayed completion of this study more than anticipated.
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