Comparative Values of Some East African Foods for Bacon Production

Abstract

Detailed figures of weight gains, food consumption, and carcase measurements are given for Edelschwein-cross pigs on a ration of home or locally grown foodstuffs, with-or without meat meal. Two rations, with maize as the basal part of each, and with meat meal and field peas as the respective sources of protein, were compared. The ration with meat meal proved more palatable and gave a more rapid weight increase, but showed a slightly smaller profit than the ration with field peas. The replacement of maize by wheat did not alter the rate of fattening or the quality of the carcase, but proved to be less profitable except when unsaleable wheat was used.-W. A. Biggar.