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Artificial rearing of pigs

12. Effect of replacement of dried skim-milk by either a soya-protein isolate or concentrate on the performance of the pigs and digestion of protein

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

M. J. Newport
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading, RG2 9AT
H. D. Keal
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading, RG2 9AT
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1. Pigs (sixteen/diet) were weaned at 2 d of age and given liquid diets (200 g dry matter/1) during a 26 d experiment. The pigs were fed on a scale based on live weight. Dried skim-milk was the only source of protein in diet U and was partially or totally replaced by a soya-bean isolate (diet B) or a concentrate (diets C and D). Soya-bean protein provided 500, 700 or 350g/kg total crude protein (nitrogen × 6·25) in diets B, C and D respectively.

2. Performance was similar for diets B and D, but poorer than that of pigs given diet U. The apparent digestibility and retention of N of these diets was similar. Pigs given diet C scoured severely and twelve died.

3. Protein digestion was studied in pigs given diets U, B and D, killed at 28 d of age, at the termination of the feeding experiment. The dry matter content and proportion of N in the digesta in the stomach were reduced in pigs given soya-bean protein. Pepsin concentrations in digesta and stomach tissue were unchanged.

4. The concentrations of trypsin and chymotrypsin in the pancreas were greater in pigs given the soya-bean protein concentrate compared with milk protein, but only the increase in trypsin was significant (P < 0·01). Digesta from the small intestine of pigs given the soya-bean-protein isolate contained less chymotrypsin (P < 0·05). There were no differences in the proportion of non-protein-N in the total N in the digesta, suggesting that proteolysis of the milk and soya-bean proteins were equally efficient by 28 d of age.

Type
Papers on General Nutrition
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1982

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