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Metabolic adaptation to dietary energy source in the growing pig

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

W.H. Close ,
A.C. Longland  and
C.E. Sharpe
W.H. Close
Affiliation:
AFRC Institute of Grassland & Environmental Research, Church Lane, Shinfield, Reading RG2 9AQ, Berks
A.C. Longland
Affiliation:
AFRC Institute of Grassland & Environmental Research, Church Lane, Shinfield, Reading RG2 9AQ, Berks
C.E. Sharpe
Affiliation:
AFRC Institute of Grassland & Environmental Research, Church Lane, Shinfield, Reading RG2 9AQ, Berks
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It is now known that growing pigs can utilise considerable quantities of non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) in their diets (Bulman et al., 1989). These materials are fermented in the hind-gut of the animal to produce volatile fatty acids (VFAs) which are then used as an energy source, unlike starch from conventional cereal-based rations which is digested by the host enzymes of the animals. Little is known about how animals adjust to a sudden change in dietary energy source and the present experiments were designed to investigate the metabolic adaptations in pigs fed either a conventional cereal-based diet or one containing 300 g sugar beet pulp/kg diet.

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Pig nutrition
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1991 , March 1991 , pp. 36
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1991

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References

Bulman, J.C., Longland, A.C., Low, A.G., Keal, H.D. and Harland, J.I. (1989) Anim. Prod. 48, 626.Google Scholar