Effect of xylanase supplementation of wheat-based liquid diets, for weaner pigs, steeped for 1 or 24 h before feeding
Katie A. l’Anson A , Mingan Choct A and Peter H. Brooks B C
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A School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.
B School of Biomedical and Biological Sciences, Plymouth University, Devon, PL4 8AA, England.
C Corresponding author. Email: pigprof@blueyonder.co.uk
Animal Production Science 53(6) 540-547 https://doi.org/10.1071/AN12306
Submitted: 25 August 2012 Accepted: 29 November 2012 Published: 2 April 2013
Abstract
Seventy-two individually housed, entire male (Large White × Landrace) weaner pigs (28 days; 7.4 ± 0.4 kg) were used in a 26-day feeding trial. The pigs were allocated to one of six treatments in a 3 by 2 factorial design. The factors were (1) steeping duration of liquid feed [0 (dry control diet), 1 or 24 h], and (2) enzyme supplementation (0 or 300 ppm xylanase). The basal diet was wheat-based (65%) and was formulated to be marginally adequate for pigs of this age, containing 14.5 MJ digestible energy (DE)/kg and 0.85 g available lysine/MJ DE. Feeding pigs liquid diets steeped for 1 h increased feed intake (61 g/day; s.e.d. 17; P < 0.05) and daily gain (70 g/day; s.e.d. 17; P < 0.05) and improved feed conversion ratio (1.16 versus 1.22; s.e.d. 0.03; P < 0.05) compared with pigs fed dry diets. Performance was not further improved by steeping for 24 h. The addition of xylanase to the diets had no positive effect on any of the performance measures and was associated with a significant (40 g/day; s.e.d. 14; P < 0.05) reduction in feed intake. These results provide no support for supplementing liquid diets for weaner pig diets with xylanase.
Additional keywords: feed intake, feed processing, liquid feeding.
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