Protein requirement of baby pigs on low-fat diets.

For some time studies have been made in this laboratory on the use of the baby pig as an experimental animal, and during this work diets low in fat have been found to support satisfactory performance (Tribe, 1954; McCrea & Tribe, 1956). This finding is somewhat surprising in view of the fact that sow’s milk is very rich in fat. For routine rearing of piglets a low-fat diet is preferable to one rich in fat because it is easy to prepare and can be stored with less risk of deterioration. In the three experiments described the protein content of the diet was varied within wide limits in order to determine the optimum protein content in low-fat diets.