Inclusion of purified dietary fiber during gestation improved the reproductive performance of sows

Table 3 Effects of dietary fiber levels during gestation on sow performance

Item	CON	DF1	DF2	DF3	DF4	DF5	SEM	P-value
Item	CON	DF1	DF2	DF3	DF4	DF5	SEM	Diets	Linear	Quadratic
Number of sow	30	33	32	32	31	32
Sow parity	3.1	3.4	3.5	3.5	3.7	3.8	0.12	0.42	0.094	0.93
Sow BF thickness, mm
At breeding	14.3	15.0	13.8	13.7	14.7	14.9	0.24	0.48	0.40	0.79
Day 30	15.1	15.7	14.1	14.3	15.6	15.1	0.22	0.19	0.72	0.98
Day 60	16.1	16.5	15.4	15.7	16.6	16.6	0.22	0.48	0.19	0.82
Day 90	16.6	16.8	16.3	17.2	17.6	17.2	0.22	0.52	0.25	0.12
Farrowing	17.5	17.2	16.8	17.4	17.8	17.6	0.23	0.86	0.081	0.15
BF gain during gestation, mm	3.3	2.2	3.0	3.7	3.2	2.7	0.13	0.12	0.19	< 0.01
Number of total born	12.9	13.7	13.8	14.1	13.9	14.8	0.17	0.071	< 0.01	0.20
Number of born alive	12.1	12.4	12.9	12.8	13.2	13.9	0.16	0.19	< 0.01	0.12
Mean BW at birth, kg	1.44	1.41	1.42	1.45	1.44	1.39	0.013	0.78	0.29	0.54
Litter weight at birth, kg	17.4	17.5	18.3	18.6	19.1	19.3	0.27	0.23	0.95	0.64
Stillborn rate, %	5.80	7.99	6.54	7.76	4.82	6.03	2.38	0.10	0.76	0.49
Intralitter CV, %	20.6	18.5	18.5	19.7	18.2	18.71	0.42	0.56	0.44	0.81
Duration of farrowing, min	234.1	285.5	290.8	296.8	293.0	289.9	11.6	0.65	0.10	0.17

Data are expressed as mean ± largest SEM. CON, basal corn-soybean diet; DF1, wheat bran-rich diet; DF2, DF3, DF4 and DF5 were wheat bran diet supplemented with 1%, 2%, 3% and 4% of FIBER MIX at the expense of wheat bran; BW body weight, BF backfat thickness

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