High-quality-cassava peel meal: Impact on growth performance, blood characteristics, and economic indices of grower pigs
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Background and Objective: Cassava peel, a byproduct of cassava tuber processing, is considered a waste. Processing using multi-level techniques enhances shelf-life and quality as a feed resource. The study examined the effects of high-quality-cassava peel meal (HQCPM) on growth, blood characteristics, and economic indices of growing pigs.
Methodology: Landrace-Large White crossbred male growing pigs (n = 30, X̅ = 23.85 ± 0.25 kg) were randomly assigned to five dietary treatments, with six pigs in each group and each pig being a replicate. The control diet (1) had maize as the major calorie source, while it was replaced with HQCPM at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% for diets 2, 3, 4, and 5, respectively, within seven weeks of the feeding trial.
Main Results: The drying methods caused variations in the proximate composition, metabolizable energy, and hydrogen cyanide. The growth response showed that significant differences (P < 0.05) were observed in total weight gain, average daily weight gain, total feed intake, and average daily feed intake, with those fed diet 3 having the highest value of 33.50 ± 1.80, 0.68 ± 0.04, 107.92 ± 9.21, and 2.21 ± 0.35 kg respectively. The HQCPM diets had no negative consequences on the blood parameters, as most values were within the acceptable range for growing pigs. Linear decrease (P < 0.05) existed in the feed cost per kg (₦86.68 ± 3.32 to ₦64.64 ± 2.43) and feed cost per kg weight gain (₦309.59 ± 13.85 to ₦217.65 ± 19.36) while an increased (P < 0.05) profit (₦424.63 ± 12.22 to ₦530.22 ± 101.13) and economy efficiency of gain (137.29 ± 5.71 to 246.85 ± 65.59) was recorded from diets 1 to 5, respectively ($1 = ₦360).
Conclusions: HQCPM can substitute maize in growing pigs‘ diets up to 100% without any insalubrious consequences for the pigs, as it favors reduced feed costs and increased economic returns.
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