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Effectiveness of Movable Shades and Water Sprinklers for Growing-Finishing Swine¹

Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station, Tifton^,4

Abstract

One hundred twelve pigs were used in three trials to determine effects of a water sprinkler located under a movable shade on performance of growing and finishing swine during the summer. When the pigs were provided access to shade with sprinklers, average daily feed intake and rate of gain were increased when compared with those of nonsprinkled pigs. The shade and sprinkling treatment did not decrease the amount of feed needed to produce a kilogram of body gain. Protection from summer temperatures provided by movable shade was sufficient to support satisfactory pig gains and feed conversion.

¹ Contribution of the Animal Science Department and approved by the Director of the Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station, University of Georgia Agricultural Experiment Stations, for publication as Journal Series Article 214.

² Associate Animal Husbandman, Associate Dairy Husbandman and Head of Department of Animal Science, respectively.

³ Agricultural Engineer, AERD, ARS, U.S.D.A., Davis, California.

⁴ This study was supported in part by American Cyanamid Co., Princeton, New Jersey, and by Tennessee Coal and Iron Co., Fairfield, Alabama.