Economic Benefit from Grower Pigs Fed Low Cost Farm-Gate Experimental Diets

An experiment was carried out to investigate the cost benefits analysis of raising different categories of pigs (intact male, female, Hog (castrated male) fed with typical commercial diets. A total of Ninety growing pigs comprising of 30 Hog, intact male and female respectively were offered the treatment diets for five weeks. The treatment diet was consisted of cassava kernel cake, soya bean meal, brewers dried grain, bone meal, premix and salt. Parameters were collected on average weekly weight gain, Average body weight, average weekly intake, cost of feed consumed, cost of feed per kg gain, production cost per pig, income per pig and profit per pig. There was a significant (P < 0.05) increase in average weekly weight gain and average feed intake as the week increases among the experimental animals. While average body weight was however not significant (P > 0.05) among the treatment units. The cost analysis of the feed showed that Hog had the highest weight gain, and was the cheapest of all the diet utilized by the pigs to gain a kg body weight and had the highest income/pigs and profit/pg of N2,025 and N1,337.8 the female at N1,250 and N6,77.7 and intact male N1,125.0 and N420.7 respectively.