Title
Mannanoligosacharide in diets for weaning pigs
Other title
Mananoligossacarídeo em dietas para leitões desmamados
Date Issued
01 January 2012
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
da Silva S.Z.
Thomaz M.C.
Watanabe P.H.
Ruiz U.d.S.
Pascoal L.A.F.
dos Santos V.M.
Masson G.C.I.H.
Universidad Estadual Paulista
Publisher(s)
Universidade de Sao Paulo. Faculdade de Medicina Veterinaria e Zootecnia
Abstract
An assay was carried out to evaluate the use of mannanoligosaccharide (MOS) in piglet diets on performance, diarrhea incidence and blood parameters. Different levels of MOS inclusion (0, 0.1 and 0.2%) for pig diets were compared. A total of 72 piglets of Topigs lineage weaned at 21 days of age with 5.28±0.90 kg of live weight were used. It was used a randomized block design to control differences between initial weights of replicates. The results show that MOS inclusion in weaning pig diets did not promote better results on daily weight gain, daily feed intake and feed conversion. Although reduction in diarrhea incidence was observed in animals fed with 0.2% MOS diet, this prebiotic did not improve the immune response of piglets. Any level of MOS evaluated is recommended for piglets.
Start page
102
End page
110
Volume
49
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia veterinaria
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84872563951
Source
Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science
ISSN of the container
14139596
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