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Effect of Dietary sugar beet pulp supplementation on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, fecal Microflora, blood profiles and Diarrhea incidence in weaning pigs

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Authors

Yan, C. L; Kim, H. S; Hong, J. S; Lee, J. H; Han, Y. G; Jin, Y. H; Son, S. W; Ha, S. H; Kim, Y. Y

Issue Date
2017-08-07
Publisher
BioMed Central
Citation
Journal of Animal Science and Technology, 59(1):18
Keywords
Sugar beet pulpWeaning pigGrowth performanceBlood profilesNutrient digestibility
Abstract
Abstract

Background
In 2006, the European Union (EU) has decided to forbid use of antibiotics as growth promoters. Although many researches had been conducted about fiber source asalternatives of antibiotics,there are still lack of reports in the literature about the optimum level of sugar beet pulp supplementation, affecting growth performance and nutrient digestibility in weaning pigs. Therefore, different level of sugar beet pulp was added to diets to determine the effects of sugar beet pulp supplementation on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, fecal microflora, blood profile and incidence of diarrhea in weaning pigs.

Methods
A total of 200 weaning pigs [(Yorkshire × Landrace)×Duroc], averaging 9.01±1.389kg of initial body weight were, allotted to 5 treatments in a randomized complete block (RCB) design. Each treatment was composed of 4 replicates with 10 pigs per pen. The treatments were control treatment: Corn-SBM basal diet + ZnO (phase 1: 0.05%; phase 2; 0.03%) and four different levels of sugar beet pulp were supplemented in Corn-SBM basal diet (3, 6, 9 or 12%). Two phase feeding programs (phase 1: 1–2weeks; phase 2: 3–5weeks) were used for 5week of growth trial.

Results
In feeding trial, there were no significant differences in growth performance and incidence of diarrhea among treatments. The E.coli counts were not significantly different among dietary treatments but linear response was observed in Lactobacillus counts as sugar beet pulp supplementation increased (P<0.05). In addition, IGF-1, IgA and IgG were not affected by dietary treatments. However, the BUN concentration was decreased when pigs were fed the treatments of diets with SBP compared to that of control treatment (P<0.05). In nutrient digestibility, crude fiber and NDF digestibilities were improved as the sugar beet pulp increased (P<0.05). However, digestibilities of crude ash, crude fat, crude fiber and nitrogen retention were not affected by dietary sugar beet pulp levels.

Conclusion
This experiment demonstrated that sugar beet pulp can be supplemented in weaning pigs diet instead of ZnO to prevent postweaning diarrhea without any detrimental effect on growth performance.
ISSN
2055-0391
Language
English
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/138324
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40781-017-0142-8
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