In previous experiments in this series, giving dry meal through a hopper with ad libitum feeding resulted in a poorer carcass feed conversion ratio than giving meal as porridge in a conventional trough (D. C. Patterson, unpublished data). In a further experiment a novel feed hopper was assessed with meal feeding. This hopper was designed to give a form of wet feeding and had nipple drinkers positioned within the trough so that pigs could not drink directly from the nipples, instead water was spilled directly onto the meal in the bottom of the trough. No other water was available to pigs on this treatment.