Dietary fibre enrichment of supplemental feed modulates the development of the intestinal tract in suckling piglets

Table 2 Composition of the experimental dry creep meals^a

	CON	lc-AXOS	CELL	lc-AXOS+CELL
Ingredient composition, %
Basal meal ^b	91.0	91.0	91.0	91.0
Chromium oxide (III)	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
Cellulose^c			5.0	5.0
lc-AXOS^d		2.0		2.0
Corn starch heat treated	8.7	6.7	3.7	1.7
Calculated nutrient composition, per kg
ME, MJ	7.5	7.2	6.8	6.5
NE, MJ	11.5	11.2	10.9	10.7
Lys, g	15.7	15.6	15.6	15.5
Met+Cys, g	9.0	8.9	8.8	8.8
Thr, g	10.2	10.1	10.0	10.0
Trp, g	3.1	3.1	3.1	3.1
Starch (Ewers method), g	241	229	210	198
Lactose, g	145	145	145	145
Calcium, g	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.2
Phosphorus, g	5.9	5.8	5.7	5.7
Copper (total), mg	176	176	176	176
Zinc (total), mg	101	100	100	99
Analysed nutrient composition, per kg
Moisture, g	65	65	64	62
Crude protein, g	188	189	186	185
Crude fat, g	125	123	119	118
Ash, g	50	51	50	50
NDF, g	60	67	114	107

^aPiglets were fed supplemental milk diets (water:powder ratio 2.5:1) from d 2 to 13. From d 14 to 16, milk was gradually replaced by dry creep meals which were fed until weaning
^bBasal meal consisted of heat-treated cereals (29.1%), mono- and disaccharides (17.2%), dairy whey products (16.5%), extruded soybean meal (12.6%), heat-treated soy beans (6.78%), vegetable proteins (5.56%), barley (4.44%), fats and oils (3.56%), vitamins and minerals (1.94%), synthetic amino acids (1.79%) and organic acids (0.53%)
^cArbocel® BWW natural pure cellulose (J. Rettenmaier & Sohne GmbH, Rosenberg, Germany)
^dNaxus, long-chain arabinoxylans extracted from wheat endosperm (BioActor B.V., Maastricht, The Netherlands)

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