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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 November 2017
The nature of compensatory growth in pigs remains unclear. But should pigs have undergone a period of growth retardation after weaning be capable of enhanced utilisation of food fed at the same level as their unretarded contemporaries, then exploiting the phenomenon would appear attractive to producers. Compensatory growth defined in this way is illustrated in Fig. 1.