Received: 22-08-2020 / Accepted: 19-11-2020
The study was conducted at animal farm of Faculty of Animal Science, Vietnam National University of Agriculture from October 2018 to November 2019 to evaluate growth performance, feed conversion ratio (FCR) and carcass characteristics. A total of 10 barrows and 8 gilts of crossbred F1 (Wild × Meishan) pigs were used for measurement of growth performance, feed conversion ratio (FCR) and carcass characteristics. The pig was individually notched by ear tag and kept separately by gender including 5 barrows per case and 4 gilts per case. The results showed that the average daily gain (ADG) and percentage of lean meat of crossbred F1 (Wild × Meishan) pigs were low (279.35 g/day and 50.79%, respectively). However, FCR was high (3.47kg). Gender did not affect growth performance, feed conversion ratio and carcass characteristics (P >0.05), feed intake of gilts was higher than barrows (P
