Digestive Morphology of Native Pig Supplemented by Different Levels of Fermented Vigna radiata L.

,Ken N Falculan Ph.D

doi:10.47191/ijcsrr/v4-i11-13

Abstract

Enhancing feed efficiency in converting feed mass into pig body mass is a critical phase for the profit in producing pig. To improve the metabolic utilization of dietary nutrients, it relies heavily on a healthy gut or gastrointestinal tract, and only a healthy digestive can result in better feed digestion and better nutrient absorption. Thus, the study investigates the growth performance, the response of the digestive morphology of native pigs, which treatment will stretch higher output and variations under different levels of fermented mungbean. The experimental research design was employed to determine the response of the three (3) pigs treated with mungbean for 70 days. The growth performance of pigs treated with different levels of fermented mungbean has a total gain weight of 7.50kg for Treatment 1; Treatment 2 is 9.00kg and, Treatment 3 is 6.50kg and is observed no significant difference on the final weight and the total weight with a p-value of > 0. 050; the response on digestive morphology such as small intestine, large intestine, heart, stomach, liver, lungs, esophagus, spleen, and kidney of pigs shows no variations on their length, width, and weight with a p-value of >0.050 under the different level of fermented mungbean; and resulted with high output treated with different level of fermented mungbean is observed on Treatment 2 with a lowest feed conversion efficiency of 3.89 for feeds and 1.39 for mungbean. Treatment 2 has the highest gain weight among the treated sample; the intestinal morphology of pigs was comparable under the three treatments; treatment 2 has the lowest feed conversion efficiency.

Highlights

Feed efficiency represents the cumulative efficiency with which the pig utilizes dietary nutrients for maintenance, lean gain, and lipid accretion
Results shows Table 1, the coefficient of determination r-square (r2) of 0.182 using the linear regression implies that 18.20% of the variation in the gain in weight of pigs is explained by the different levels of treatment
At the 5% level of significance, it can be concluded that the gain in weight regression line with a computed F-value of .000 for initial body weight, .120 for final body weight and .223 for the total gain weight were shown by its p-value of > 0.050 has no significant difference

Summary

Introduction

Feed efficiency represents the cumulative efficiency with which the pig utilizes dietary nutrients for maintenance, lean gain, and lipid accretion. The less efficient utilization of feed with a low protein diet in the modern pig husbandry will have to enhance the feeding diet to a plant-based diet containing complex protein and carbohydrates includes various antinutritional factors (Baguio, 2017). The piglet has to cope with the sudden withdrawal of sow milk and adapt to; less digestible, plant-based dry diets containing complex protein and carbohydrates including various antinutritional factors (Heo et al, 2012). Fermentation is the conversion of carbohydrates to alcohol and carbon dioxide or organic acids using yeast, bacteria, or a combination, under anaerobic conditions without net oxidation. It enhances nutrition, stabilization of the original raw materials, and detoxification and antinutritional factors.

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