title: Effects of body weight and feed intake level on basal ileal endogenous losses in growing pigs.
abstract: An experiment was carried out to determine the effects of feeding level, body weight, and time after surgery on basal ileal endogenous amino acid (AA) and N losses in growing pigs. Three pairs of littermate pigs were surgically prepared with ileo-rectal anastomoses. One pig in each pair was anastomosed at 38 kg BW, and the remaining pigs were anastomosed at 67 kg BW. Each pig received at different periods 50, 70, or 90 g of dry matter per kilogram of BW.75 of a protein-free diet according to a Latin square design involving three pigs starting at 45 kg BW and involving six pigs starting at 77 kg BW. For most AA, the time after surgery x feeding level interaction was significant. The basal endogenous losses (in g/d) increased linearly with feeding level at both BW. At the higher BW, the basal endogenous losses (in g/kg DMI) were constant regardless of feeding level, whereas at the lower BW they responded quadratically. At the low feeding level, the endogenous losses were higher than at the medium or high feeding level. We concluded that the basal endogenous losses are proportional to DMI when the feeding level is higher than 70 g/kg BW.75. The AA profile was not influenced by these three variables, but there was a large animal effect. These results suggest that, in digestibility trials, an assessment of the basal ileal endogenous AA losses must be performed on each pig to correct the apparent ileal AA digestibility data.
authors.affiliation: INRA, Station de Recherches Porcines, Saint Gilles, France.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hess
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sève
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism; D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight; D002149:Energy Intake; D005260:Female; D005766:Gastrointestinal Contents / Q000737:chemistry; D007082:Ileum / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000378:metabolism; D013552:Swine / Q000254:growth & development*
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D009584:Nitrogen