ReviewAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2021
Toward Precise Nutrient Value of Feed in Growing Pigs: Effect of Meal Size, Frequency and Dietary Fibre on Nutrient Utilisation.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Evaluation on Growth Performance, Nutrient Digestibility and Fecal Scores in Weaning Pigs Fed Wheat Bran- or Beet Pulp-Based Diets.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Evaluation of elevated soybean meal diets with inclusion of exogenous enzymes on the effect of growth performance and digestibility.Translational animal science · 2026Article
- Digestibility, Passage Rate, Growth, and Digesta Properties in Windsnyer Pigs Fed Increasing Potato Hash Silage.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Effects of supplemental betaine isolated or in combination with soybean hulls on growth performance, body composition, and metabolic status of young growing pigs.Tropical animal health and production · 2025Article
- Apparent Total Tract Digestibility of Energy, Concentrations of Digestible Energy and Metabolizable Energy, and Nitrogen Balance in Growing Pigs Fed Bakery Meal and Biscuit Meal with Multi-Enzyme.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Nutritional values of soybean meal from different sources in multiparous sows.Animal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui) · 2025Article
- Technologies and practices to improve feed and nutrient utilization by pigs.Journal of animal science · 2025Review
- Daily feeding frequency impacts muscle characteristics and fat deposition in finishing pigs associated with alterations in microbiota composition and bile acid profile.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Wheat bran inclusion level impacts its net energy by shaping gut microbiota and regulating heat production in gestating sows.Animal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui) · 2023Article
- Effects of Dietary Wheat Bran on Ileal and Hindgut Digestibility of Nutrient in Pigs and Influences of Ileal Digesta Collection on Proceeding Fecal Nutrient Digestibility.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Evaluation of multienzyme supplementation and fiber levels on nutrient and energy digestibility of diets fed to gestating sows and growing pigs.Journal of animal science · 2023Article
- Nutritional values of cottonseed meal from different sources fed to gestating and non-pregnant sows.Journal of animal science · 2023Article
- Influence of Sugar Beet Pulp Supplementation on Pigs' Health and Production Quality.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Changes in the physicochemical properties and in vitro protein digestibility of peanut hulls treated via mechanical activation.Food science and biotechnology · 2022Article
- The Feeding Behaviour Habits of Growing-Finishing Pigs and Its Effects on Growth Performance and Carcass Quality: A Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
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Abstract
Nutritional values of ingredients have been and still are the subject of many studies to reduce security margins of nutrients when formulating diets to reduce feed cost. In most studies, pigs are fed a limited amount of feed in a limited number of meals that do not represent how pigs are fed in commercial farm conditions. With free access to feed, pigs follow their intrinsic feeding behaviour. Feed intake is regulated by satiety and satiation signals. Reducing the feed intake level or feeding frequency can affect digestibility and transit time and induce metabolic changes. To reduce feed costs, alternative ingredients that are frequently rich in dietary fibre are added to diets. Fibre acts on the digestion process and transit time by decreasing energy density and causing viscosity. Various analyses of fibre can be realised, and the measured fibre fraction can vary. Exogenous enzymes can be added to counteract the effect of fibre, but digestive tract conditions, influenced by meal size and frequency, can affect the efficiency of supplemented enzymes. In conclusion, the frequency and size of the meals can affect the digestibility of nutrients by modulating gastrointestinal tract conditions (pH and transit time), metabolites (glucose and short-chain fatty acids) and hormones (glucagon-like peptide 1 and peptide tyrosine tyrosine).
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