Biscuit powder as an unconventional feed in piglets

The feeding of food waste or garbage to swine is a common practice throughout the world and is often concentrated around metropolitan centers. Hence a study was conducted to assess the performance of Large White Yorkshire (LWY) piglets fed with the biscuit waste as unconventional feed. The trial comprised of two groups of randomly grouped LWY piglets fed with swine starter ration and biscuit waste respectively. The final body weights for piglets at the end of 8th week were 14.10±2.27 and 10.97±1.6 Kg for starter and biscuit waste fed groups respectively. The non significant reduction in weight gain could be attributed to the lesser crude fibre and protein content in biscuit waste. Hence, it is concluded that supplementation of additional proteins was necessary to obtain optimum growth in piglets when fed with unconventional feed like biscuit waste.