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Influence of dietary fibre on digestive utilization and rate of passage in growing pigs, finishing pigs and adult sows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

G.Le Goff ,
J. van Milgen  and
J. Noblet
G.Le Goff
Affiliation:
INRA, Unité Mixte de Recherches sur le Veau et le Porc, 35590 St-Gilles, France
J. van Milgen
Affiliation:
INRA, Unité Mixte de Recherches sur le Veau et le Porc, 35590 St-Gilles, France
J. Noblet*
Affiliation:
INRA, Unité Mixte de Recherches sur le Veau et le Porc, 35590 St-Gilles, France
*
Corresponding author. E-mail: noblet@st-gilles.rennes.inra.fr
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Abstract

Four experimental diets differing in the level and the origin of dietary fibre (DF) were studied: a control, low DF diet (diet C, 100 g total dietary fibre (TDF) per kg dry matter (DM)) and three fibre-rich diets (200 g TDF per kg DM) which corresponded to a combination of diet C and maize bran (diet MB), or wheat bran (diet WB), or sugar-beet pulp (diet SBP). During two successive experimental periods, each diet was offered to five pigs at a growing stage (35 kg body weight (BW)) and at a finishing stage (75 kg BW). In addition, four adult ovariectomized sows received successively one of the four diets according to a 4 ✕ 4 Latin-square design. Digestive utilization of energy and nutrients of diets and rate of passage parameters were determined using a pulse dose of ytterbium oxide followed by total faecal collection. Faecal marker excretion was quantified using an age-dependent, one-compartment model, from which the mean retention time in the gastrointestinal tract of pigs (MRT) was obtained. The digestibility of dietary energy and nutrients, especially the DF fraction, increased with the increase in BW from growing to finishing pigs (P < 0.01) and was still higher in adult sows; the difference between pig stages was more pronounced for diet MB. At each stage, the digestibility of energy or nutrients was lower (P < 0.01) for diets MB or WB than for diet SBP. Accordingly, the energy and DF digestibility of sugar-beet pulp was higher and increased much less with BW. The MRT was shorter for diets MB and WB in growing pigs and in sows. Sows had a longer MRT (81 h) than finishing pigs (37 h) and growing pigs (33 h); however, MRT was highly variable between sows. It is concluded that the degree to which different types of DF are digested depends, in part, on the botanical origin, and it may be improved by a longer MRT in the gastrointestinal tract of pigs. Some fibrous foodstuffs (such as maize-by products) will benefit more from a longer MRT than others.

Keywords

digestibility, fibre, pigs, sows
Type
Non-ruminant nutrition, behaviour and production
Information
Animal Science , Volume 74 , Issue 3 , June 2002 , pp. 503 - 515
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 2002

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