| 摘要 |
Animals, in particular pigs, are fed restrictively for a predetermined first period lasting at least one day so as to bring about increased cell division in the animal, which first period is followed by overfeeding the animal for another predetermined period, also lasting at least one day, so as to cause growth of the cells formed during the first period, and preferably alternating the periods of restrictive feeding and overfeeding until the animal has reached the desired weight, which occurs faster than when an animal is fed by a conventional feeding method. To further the production of digestive enzymes, animals are subjected to sensory stimuli in the form of signals generated at each feeding place and varied in the course of a period of time so as to condition the animal to expect the supply of feed at a given moment. For pigs, the stimuli may comprise a reproduction of a sequence of the sow's suckling grunt accelerating towards the delivery of a mouthful of feed. |
