Food remains in the stomach of the pig for about 12 hours, and takes, on the average, about 36 hours to pass through the body, so that, to avoid over-loading of the stomach and digestive organs, time is necessary for one meal to become digested before another is offered. The stomach of the pig is capable of dealing with carbohydrate food, and can also deal with food of animal origin and convert it into easily assimilated food, but with less rapidity. Pigs are, however, quite incapable of digesting coarse foodstuffs properly; consequently, while a small proportion of fibre may be necessary to stimulate the action of the bowels, an excess almost invariably leads to constipation of an obstinate character.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 810, 2 November 1929, Page 31
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