Nutrient digestion efficiency: a comparison between broiler chickens and growing pigs fed maize, barley and oats-based diets with an emphasis on starch.

• Tác giả: Lucas S Bassi, Aaron J Cowieson, Marcin Hejdysz, Sebastian A Kaczmarek, Paweł A Kołodziejski, Ewa Pruszyńska-Oszmałek, Birger Svihus
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: England : The British journal of nutrition , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 52482

Tóm tắt

We investigated the hypotheses that broilers and pigs have distinct starch digestion capacities and that different cereals could trigger diet-species interactions. Ten replicates of two broilers (14 d old) or one pig (50 d old) each were distributed into a 3 × 2 randomised factorial design with three pelleted diets (maize, barley or oat-based) and the two species. Nutritional composition was equal for both species. Diets were fed for 10 d, and then the pancreas and organs from the stomach region and small intestine were collected with contents. It was observed that both species were similarly efficient at digesting starch but differed in some digestive aspects. Broilers had higher ileal digestibility coefficients (