Effect of Different Amounts of Hybrid Barley in Diets on the Growth Performance and Selected Biochemical Parameters of Blood Serum Characterizing Health Status in Fattening Pigs
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Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Animals, Diets, and Feeding
2.2. Measurement of Blood
2.3. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Item | Treatment | ||
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Hybrid Barley 80% | Hybrid Barley 40% Wheat 40% | Wheat—80% | |
Number of animals in group | 48 | 48 | 48 |
Number of pens in group | 6 | 6 | 6 |
Item | Components | |
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Hybrid Barley | Wheat | |
Nutrients, %·kg−1 | ||
Dry matter | 91.14 | 91.1 |
Crude ash | 2.1 | 1.9 |
Crude protein | 11.02 | 12.2 |
Crude fiber | 5.82 | 3.11 |
Crude fat | 1.23 | 2.32 |
Amino acids, g·kg−1 | ||
Lysine | 3.68 | 3.88 |
Methionine + Cystine | 4.11 | 4.6 |
Tryptophan | 1.42 | 1.01 |
Arginine | 4.68 | 5.18 |
Histidine | 2.49 | 2.52 |
Phenylalanine | 5.55 | 5.57 |
Tyrosine | 2.11 | 3.02 |
Leucine | 7.49 | 7.6 |
Isoleucine | 3.56 | 3.94 |
Valine | 4.99 | 4.92 |
Alanine | 4.17 | 3.48 |
Glycine | 4.32 | 4.21 |
Proline | 12.06 | 11.87 |
Threonine | 3.64 | 3.63 |
Serine | 4.6 | 4.51 |
Glutamic acid | 25.15 | 20.11 |
Amino acid index | 65 | 59 |
Item | Treatment | ||
---|---|---|---|
Hybrid Barley—80% | Hybrid Barley—40% Wheat—40% | Wheat—80% | |
(in %) | |||
Hybrid barley | 84.8 | 42.2 | - |
Wheat | - | 42.2 | 84.05 |
Soybean meal | 10.6 | 11 | 11.35 |
Premix * | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
Fodder yeast | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Optazyme Lidermix® ** | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Nutritive value (g in 1 kg of mixture) | |||
Metabolizable Energy, MJ | 12.7 | 12.9 | 13.2 |
Crude protein | 155 | 158.1 | 164.5 |
Crude fat | 11.7 | 16.3 | 20.9 |
Crude fiber | 53.4 | 41.9 | 30.5 |
Lysine | 9.14 | 9.32 | 9.49 |
Methionine | 2.84 | 2.9 | 2.96 |
Threonine | 5.45 | 5.51 | 5.56 |
Tryptophan | 1.96 | 1.81 | 1.66 |
Ca | 4.43 | 4.57 | 4.7 |
P | 5.36 | 5.37 | 5.37 |
Na | 1.64 | 1.64 | 1.64 |
Content crude protein (g) and lysine (g) per 1 MJ ME | |||
Crude protein/Metabolizable energy | 12.2 | 12.2 | 12.5 |
Lysine/Metabolizable energy | 0.73 | 0.72 | 0.73 |
Amino acids in ratio to lysine content | |||
Methionine + Cystine | 64 | 64 | 65 |
Threonine | 60 | 59 | 59 |
Tryptophan | 21 | 19 | 18 |
Specification | Treatment | ||||
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Hybrid Barley—80% | Hybrid Barley—40% Wheat—40% | Wheat—80% | SEM | p-Value | |
Performance results | |||||
Body weight (BW), kg | |||||
initial | 54.39 | 56.04 | 55.52 | 1.607 | 0.358 |
final | 119.48 | 119.66 | 121.97 | 1.711 | 0.085 |
Average daily body weight gains (ADG), g·day−1 | 834 | 826 | 851 | 5.894 | 0.174 |
Average daily feed intake (ADFI) per head, kg·day−1 | 2.34 | 2.32 | 2.35 | 2.145 | 0.774 |
Feed conversion ratio (FCR), kg feed∙kg BWG−1 | 2.81 | 2.82 | 2.77 | 0.026 | 0.349 |
Average results of slaughter yield of fatteners | |||||
Cold carcass weight, kg | 88.79 | 88.48 | 89.36 | 1.366 | 0.727 |
Fat thickness, mm | 20.13 | 21.97 | 17.90 | 0.899 | 0.403 |
Muscle thickness, mm | 55.34 | 56.13 | 59.93 | 1.146 | 0.110 |
Slaughter yield, % | 74.30 | 73.74 | 73.25 | 1.123 | 0.973 |
Meatiness, % | 54.00 | 54.35 | 54.52 | 0.809 | 0.683 |
Specification | Treatment | SEM | p-Value | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hybrid Barley—80% | Hybrid Barley—40% Wheat—40% | Wheat—80% | |||
Total cholesterol, mmol∙dm−3 | 2.08 a | 2.37 b | 2.49 b | 1.105 | 0.021 |
HDL, mmol∙dm−3 | 1.04 A | 0.97 A | 0.84 B | 0.035 | 0.001 |
LDL, mmol∙dm−3 | 1.05 a | 1.10 ab | 1.18 b | 0.033 | 0.026 |
Triglycerides, mmol∙dm−3 | 0.50 a | 0.59 a | 0.72 b | 0.056 | 0.013 |
Specification | Treatment | SEM | p-Value | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hybrid Barley—80% | Hybrid Barley—40% Wheat—40% | Wheat—80% | |||
Total protein, g∙dm−3 | 63.64 | 62.43 | 64.96 | 1.08 | 0.752 |
Albumin, g∙dm−3 | 31.16 | 31.26 | 32.54 | 0.9 | 0.508 |
α-globulin, g∙dm−3 | 13 | 12.6 | 13.42 | 0.4 | 0.368 |
β-globulin, g∙dm−3 | 11.9 | 11.9 | 12.3 | 0.41 | 0.714 |
γ-globulin, g∙dm−3 | 7.58 | 6.67 | 6.7 | 0.58 | 0.516 |
Glucose, mmol∙dm−3 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.35 | 0.29 | 0.864 |
Urea, mmol∙dm−3 | 4.1 | 4 | 4.05 | 0.19 | 0.936 |
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Szuba-Trznadel, A.; Hikawczuk, T.; Korzeniowska, M.; Fuchs, B. Effect of Different Amounts of Hybrid Barley in Diets on the Growth Performance and Selected Biochemical Parameters of Blood Serum Characterizing Health Status in Fattening Pigs. Animals 2020, 10, 1987. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10111987
Szuba-Trznadel A, Hikawczuk T, Korzeniowska M, Fuchs B. Effect of Different Amounts of Hybrid Barley in Diets on the Growth Performance and Selected Biochemical Parameters of Blood Serum Characterizing Health Status in Fattening Pigs. Animals. 2020; 10(11):1987. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10111987
Chicago/Turabian StyleSzuba-Trznadel, Anna, Tomasz Hikawczuk, Małgorzata Korzeniowska, and Bogusław Fuchs. 2020. "Effect of Different Amounts of Hybrid Barley in Diets on the Growth Performance and Selected Biochemical Parameters of Blood Serum Characterizing Health Status in Fattening Pigs" Animals 10, no. 11: 1987. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10111987