The effect of dietary Cr supplementation on pig carcass
traits is shown in Table 5. Cr supplementation decreased
Carcass results as well as the increased ADG (Table 2)
together indicated that dietary Cr could be strongly
responsible for muscular body weight gain by limiting the
deposition of fatty tissue in the body. However, the increase
in muscular body weight gain represented mainly the
changes in proportion between muscular and fatty tissues.
This meant that dietary Cr supplementation relatively
weakly affected the increase of physical body size since
there was no notable difference in dressing percentage and
LMA.