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Digestibility and Utilisation of Fibre and Nitrogen by Growing Pigs given Diets Containing Sugar Beet Pulp

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2017

H R Stebbens ,
C A Morgan  and
C T Whittemore
H R Stebbens
Affiliation:
ESCA
C A Morgan
Affiliation:
ESCA
C T Whittemore
Affiliation:
ESCA
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Dried unmolassed sugar beet pulp contains complex polysaccharides which are highly fermentable in the growing pig and the neutral detergent fibre fraction is highly digestible. Fermentation in the hind gut of the pig is dependent on a supply of carbohydrate and nitrogen. The amounts of nitrogen available could limit microbial metabolism and hence sugar beet pulp digestibility at high levels of intake. The alms of the experiment were to examine:

  1. 1. The effect of the level of protein on the digestibility of fibre from sugar beet pulp.

  2. 2. The effect of the level of sugar beet pulp on nitrogen digestibility, nitrogen retention and nitrogen excretion.

Type
Nutrition of Growth and Finishing Pigs
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1988 , March 1988 , pp. 134
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1988

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