Publication: Models to quantify excretion of dry matter, nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon in growing pigs fed regional diets
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2013-11-09
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20491891
16749782
16749782
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Mahidol University
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Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology. Vol.4, No.1 (2013)
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Henry Jørgensen, Trakarn Prapaspongsa, Van Thi K. Vu, Hanne D. Poulsen Models to quantify excretion of dry matter, nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon in growing pigs fed regional diets. Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology. Vol.4, No.1 (2013). doi:10.1186/2049-1891-4-42 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/30954
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Models to quantify excretion of dry matter, nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon in growing pigs fed regional diets
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Modern pig production contributes to many environmental problems that relate to manure, especially in areas with highly intensive production systems and in regions like Asia where the regulative control is not effective. Therefore, the objective of this study was to use three different pig diets varying in dietary protein, fibre and fat as representative for Danish (DK), Thai (TH) and Vietnamese (VN) pig production to develop and evaluate different approaches to predict/calculate excretion from growing pigs in comparison with the experimentally determined values.Nine female growing pigs were used in a digestibility and balance experiment. Excretion of dry matter (DM), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and carbon (C) of the experimental diets were determined.Due to the highest dietary fibre content, VN had the lowest digestibility of N, P and C (73, 49, and 73%, respectively) compared with the DK and TH pig diets. From the known diet composition using standard table values on chemical and nutrient digestibly, high accuracy (bias) and low variation was found and the results could be used for prediction on chemical composition and excretion in faeces and urine in growing pigs. Calculation based on standard values regarding nutrient retention in the pig body as used in the Danish manure normative system (DMNS) showed likewise to be quite useful for quantifying the total excretion of N and P.Overall, the results demonstrate that simple models that require cheap and normally available information on dietary nutrients can give useful information on nutrient excretion in growing pigs. © 2013 Jørgensen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.