ORIGINAL PAPER
Endogenous N losses at the terminal ileum of
young piglets fed diets based on four different
protein sources
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Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences, Animal Nutrition Group,
Marijkeweg 40, 6709 PG Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Research Institute for the Biology of Farm Animals,
Department of Nutritional Physiology "Oskar Kellner",
Justus von Liebig- Weg 2, 18059 Rostock, Germany
Publication date: 1997-05-15
J. Anim. Feed Sci. 1997;6(2):219-234
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Fourteen piglets, initially weighing 8 kg, were each fitted with a Post Valve T-Caecum (PVTC)
cannula and two catheters, one in a jugular vein and one in a carotid artery. Piglets received one of
four experimental diets containing either skimmilk powder (SMP), soyabean meal (SBM), soya
protein isolate (SI) or fish meal (FM) as the sole protein source; the crude protein content in the diets
was from about 17 to 18.4% of DM. The diets were given in equal amounts at 12 h intervals.
15N-L-leucine was intravenously infused continuously at a rate of about 40 mg 15N-L-leucine per kg
body weight per day. Apparent and true faecal nitrogen (N) digestibilities were 94.0 and 97.3, 84.0
and 93.5, 90.8, and 98.1 and 89.1 and 96.4% for the SMP, the SBM, the SI and the F M diets,
respectively. Daily endogenous faecal N losses were 315, 963, 715 and 697 mg and daily endogenous
ileal N losses were 786, 1422, 1970 and 1558 mg for diets SMP, SBM, SI and FM, respectively.
Apparent ileal nitrogen (N) digestibilities were 84.4, 76.5, 78.4 and 73.0%, true ileal N digestibilities
were 92.7, 90.6, 98.4 and 89.3% for diets SMP, SBM, SI and FM, respectively.
It was concluded that true N digestibilities were high for all four protein sources, both at the ileal
and at the faecal level. Differences in apparent N digestibility were mainly caused by differences in
endogenous N secretion.
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