From: Inclusion of purified dietary fiber during gestation improved the reproductive performance of sows
Item | Gestation stage | Diets | SEM | P-value |  |  | ||||||||||
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Day 30 | Day 60 | Day 90 | Day 110 | CON | DF1 | DF2 | DF3 | DF4 | DF5 |  | Stage | Diets | S × D | Linear | Quadratic | |
Acetate, μmol/g | 59.4b | 57.9b | 74.9a | 67.7ab | 65.5 | 65.9 | 56.0 | 64.6 | 63.5 | 74.0 | 5.1 | < 0.01 | 0.15 | 0.041 | 0.032 | 0.35 |
Propionate, μmol/g | 20.5b | 20.6b | 27.9a | 26.4a | 24.8 | 27.1 | 21.1 | 22.7 | 24.2 | 22.9 | 2.4 | < 0.01 | 0.16 | 0.022 | 0.45 | 0.36 |
Butyrate, μmol/g | 10.3b | 9.8b | 13.9a | 13.3a | 10.9b | 12.3ab | 9.2b | 10.7b | 12.2ab | 15.3a | 1.1 | < 0.01 | < 0.01 | 0.13 | < 0.01 | 0.52 |
Total SCFAs, μmol/g | 90.2bc | 88.3c | 116.7a | 107.4ab | 101.2 | 105.3 | 86.3 | 98.0 | 99.9 | 112.3 | 8.3 | < 0.01 | 0.15 | 0.042 | 0.071 | 0.36 |