Standardized total tract digestibility

Digestible and metabolizable energy, and standardized total tract digestibility of phosphorus in five sources of full-fat soybeans fed to growing pigs

Whole soybeans, from which the oil is not extracted, are referred to as full-fat soybeans (FFSB) and may be used in diets for poultry and pigs because of it is high contents of protein, oil, linoleic acid, vitamin E, and lecithin. Unprocessed raw soybeans, however, contain several anti-nutritional factors including trypsin inhibitors that make them unsuitable as a feed for pigs and poultry, because the protein digesting enzymes are impaired by the trypsin inhibitors, which reduces digestibility, depresses growth rate, and decreases the efficiency of feed utilization when fed to swine. However, there is a lack of data for the nutritional value of FFSB. Therefore, two experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that there is no difference among FFSB sources 01, 02, 03, 04, and 05 in the digestible energy (DE), the metabolizable energy (ME), and the standardized total tract digestibility (STTD) of P when fed to growing pigs.

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Effects of source of calcium carbonate and microbial phytase on digestibility of calcium

It is important that the digestibility of Ca in Ca sources is known to formulate diets based on values for digestible Ca rather than total Ca. Only a small amount of the Ca required by pigs is provided by plant-based ingredients and supplementation of Ca from Ca phosphates and Ca carbonate, is usually required to meet the requirement by pigs. In addition, use of microbial phytase increases Ca digestibility in Ca carbonate, which is one of the major sources of Ca in pig diets.

Differences in Ca digestibility in 4 sources of Ca carbonate produced in the United States have been observed, but it is unknown if there are differences in the ATTD of Ca in calcium carbonate sources produced outside the United States. Therefore, the objective of this experiment was to test the hypothesis that there are differences in the apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) and standardized total tract digestibility (STTD) of Ca and in the response to microbial phytase among 20 sources of Ca carbonate obtained from different parts of the world.

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Standardized total tract digestibility (STTD) of phosphorus

Stein, H. H. 2011. Standardized total tract digestibility (STTD) of phosphorus. Pages 47-52 in Proc. Midwest Swine Nutr. Conf. Indianapolis, IN, Sep. 8, 2011. Link to full text (.pdf)

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