title: Effect of high fibre diets formulated with different fibrous ingredients on performance, nutrient digestibility and faecal microbiota of weaned piglets.
abstract: The aim of the experiment on 180 weaned piglets (8.9 kg body weight) was to investigate the influence of high fibre diets formulated with different fibrous ingredients on performance, nutrient digestibility, diarrhoea incidence and numbers of faecal microbiota. The dietary treatments included a Control diet and five high fibre diets formulated with different fibre sources including wheat bran, soybean hulls, naked oat hulls, palm kernel expeller and bamboo fibre. The high fibre diets averaged 14.6% neutral detergent fibre with different non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) components and were fed ad libitum for 28 d. Faecal samples were collected during the last 3 d of the experiment and the apparent total tract digestibility of nutrients and fibre components were determined. Pigs fed the Control and wheat bran diets had a higher (p ≤ 0.05) average daily gain (ADG) than pigs fed the palm kernel expeller and bamboo meal diets. The reduced ADG for pigs appeared to be related to reductions in the digestibility of gross energy and dry matter, respectively. The feed-to-gain ratio was significantly higher (p ≤ 0.05) for pigs fed the fibre diets. The digestibility of NSP components was different among the treatments. The diarrhoea incidence was not affected by treatments. The abundance of faecal bifidobacteria was significantly higher (p ≤ 0.05) for pigs fed the wheat bran diet than for pigs fed the bamboo meal diet. It was concluded that the diets formulated with different fibre sources when fed to weaned piglets have different effects on pig performance, nutrient digestibility and numbers of faecal microbiota. The wheat bran diet rich in arabinoxylans enabled a better performance than the other tested diets with fibre addition.
authors.affiliation: a State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre , China Agricultural University , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Cangyou
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: a State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre , China Agricultural University , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Shihai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: a State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre , China Agricultural University , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: a State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre , China Agricultural University , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.affiliation: a State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre , China Agricultural University , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Jinlong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: a State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre , China Agricultural University , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Xiangfang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.affiliation: a State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre , China Agricultural University , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Shiyan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Qiao
mesh_terms: D000821:Animal Feed / Q000032:analysis; D000824:Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D000818:Animals; D004032:Diet / Q000662:veterinary*; D004043:Dietary Fiber / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D064307:Microbiota / Q000502:physiology*; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D034421:Sus scrofa / Q000254:growth & development / Q000382:microbiology / Q000502:physiology*; D014886:Weaning
chemical_list: D004043:Dietary Fiber; D011134:Polysaccharides
keywords: Digestibility; fibre; microbiota; performance; piglets; polysaccharides