Title
Qualitative feed restriction for heavy swines: Effect on digestibility and weight of organs of digestive tract, and environmental impact of feces
Other title
[Restrição alimentar qualitativa para suínos pesados: efeito sobre digestibilidade e peso dos órgãos do trato digestório e impacto ambiental das fezes]
Date Issued
01 December 2009
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Fraga A.
Thomaz M.
Kronka R.
Budiño F.
Scandolera A.
Ruiz U.
Nadai A.
FCAV-UNESP
Publisher(s)
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Abstract
A total of 50 barrows were used to evaluate qualitative feed restriction on digestibility of dietary components, weight of organs of digestive tract, and composition and production of feces. Five experimental diets, with increasing levels of qualitative feed restriction of 0, 5, 10, 15, and 20% were used. There was linear reduction (P<0.001) of all digestibility coefficients on the levels of qualitative feed restriction, except for acid detergent fiber, which presented a quadratic response (P<0.05). Contents of total solids (P<0.01), volatile solids (P<0.05), and total minerals (P<0.001) in the feces augmented with increasing levels of qualitative feed restriction, whereas the levels of K (P<0.05), Cu (P<0.01), N, P, Na, Ca, Mg, Fe, and Zn (P<0.001) presented a quadratic response. Daily feces excretion; and contents of total solids, volatile solids, total minerals, and levels of N, P, K, Mn, and Cu (P<0.001) and Ca, Na, Mg, and Fe (P<0.05) presented a clear increase in function of the qualitative feed restriction level. Qualitative feed restriction can be an alternative for the disposal of agribusiness waste, providing good crop-fertilizing by the use of swine feces.
Start page
1353
End page
1363
Volume
61
Issue
6
Language
(Other)
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Agricultura
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-77954185668
Source
Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinaria e Zootecnia
ISSN of the container
01020935
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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