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

Table 4 Sow performance correlated by Pearson’s correlation to different fiber components in gestation diets

	CF	NDF	TDF	SF	ISF
Number of total born	0.213**	0.195**	0.201**	0.217**	0.177*
Number of born alive	0.236**	0.175*	0.184*	0.225**	0.204**
Mean BW of piglet at birth, kg	−0.042	−0.041	−0.043	−0.043	− 0.006
Mean litter weight at birth, kg	−0.014	− 0.023	−0.023	− 0.018	−0.023
Stillborn rate, %	0.046	0.045	0.046	0.049	0.044
Intralitter CV, %	−0.033	−0.029	− 0.031	−0.032	− 0.030

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