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Table 3.

Effects of dietary wheat bran levels and growth stages on apparent ileal digestibilitiy, apparent total tract of digestibility and hindgut fermentation of nutrients and energy in growing pigs¹ (%, unless otherwise specified )

	Growth stage 1			Growth stage 2				p-value

Items	Basal diet	9.65% wheat bran diet	48.25% wheat bran diet	Basal diet	9.65% wheat bran diet	48.25% wheat bran diet	SEM	Levels	Levels× BW	BW
Apparent ileal digestibility (%)
Dry matter	64.52^ab	62.49^ab	50.86^c	67.94^a	64.33^ab	50.31^c	0.48	<0.01	0.28	0.11
Crude protein	71.73	68.24	62.44	66.43	66.09	64.29	1.12	0.13	0.46	0.39
Ether extract	44.58	46.92	42.49	53.22	48.13	43.74	2.08	0.56	0.71	0.38
NDF	36.05	29.63	39.77	41.26	37.96	33.90	2.17	0.72	0.41	0.53
ADF	7.99	8.94	21.99	10.04	13.11	23.11	2.52	0.33	0.21	0.59
Ash	24.07^ab	17.67^ab	3.86^ab	31.36^a	14.27^ab	−0.42^b	2.70	<0.01	0.63	0.99
Organic matter	68.74^ab	66.77^b	56.56^c	71.71^a	68.72^ab	56.13^c	0.43	<0.01	0.29	0.09
Carbohydrates	70.50^b	68.60^b	57.57^c	75.03^a	71.16^b	56.32^c	0.45	<0.01	0.05	<0.05
Gross energy	66.63^a	64.76^a	54.72^b	69.51^a	66.53^a	55.39^b	0.45	<0.01	0.63	0.06
DE, MJ/kg of DM	11.91^ab	11.53^b	9.61^c	12.54^a	11.79^ab	9.43^c	0.08	<0.01	0.19	0.15
Apparent total tract digestibility (%)
Dry matter	83.35^a	80.96^a	73.49^c	84.86^a	83.82^a	77.65^b	0.50	<0.01	0.56	<0.05
Crude protein	79.61	78.17	78.46	82.26	78.20	79.65	0.77	0.37	0.79	0.38
Ether extract	37.41	31.64	19.86	26.69	30.22	31.72	2.51	0.56	0.23	0.92
NDF	66.71	53.57	61.45	68.62	58.07	60.68	1.81	<0.05	0.94	0.48
ADF	60.42	43.97	42.73	59.02	53.92	49.21	2.2	<0.05	0.56	0.26
Ash	49.99^ab	44.46^b	35.23^c	59.68^a	53.77^ab	49.62^a	1.23	<0.01	0.73	<0.01
Organic matter	86.53^a	84.06^a	77.87^b	87.51^a	86.37^a	80.76^b	0.44	<0.01	0.64	<0.05
Carbohydrates	90.52^a	87.92^a	80.98^b	91.61^a	90.59^a	83.49^b	0.39	<0.01	0.65	<0.05
Gross energy	83.57^a	80.96^ab	74.12^c	85.08^a	83.72^a	78.09^b	0.54	<0.01	0.66	<0.05
DE (MJ/kg of DM)	15.87^a	15.39^a	13.94^b	16.28^a	16.02^a	14.52^b	0.12	<0.01	0.92	<0.05
Hindgut fermentation (%)
Dry matter	18.84	18.46	22.63	16.92	19.48	27.35	0.70	0.35	0.15	0.51
Crude protein	7.88	9.93	16.02	15.86	12.11	15.36	1.74	0.85	0.78	0.48
Ether extract	−7.17	−15.28	−22.63	−12.03	−17.92	−26.52	2.39	0.26	0.09	0.96
NDF	30.65	23.94	21.68	27.36	20.12	26.79	2.40	0.65	0.19	0.89
ADF	52.41	35.03	20.74	48.99	30.81	36.11	2.69	0.09	0.30	0.60
Ash	25.92	26.79	31.37	28.32	39.50	50.03	3.39	0.40	0.40	0.17
Organic matter	17.79	17.29	21.31	15.81	17.65	24.63	0.64	0.48	0.25	0.89
Carbohydrates	20.02	19.31	23.41	16.58	19.43	27.18	0.60	0.20	0.21	0.53
Gross energy	16.94	16.21	19.40	15.57	17.22	22.70	0.78	0.85	0.69	0.76
DE (MJ/kg of DM)	3.95^c	3.86^cd	4.33^ab	3.74^d	4.23^b	5.09^a	0.09	<0.01	0.99	0.99

SEM, standard error of the mean; BW, body weight; NDF, neutral detergent fiber; ADF, acid detergent fiber; DE, digestible energy.

Mean values from six replications.

^a–d

Values within a row lacking a common superscript letter are different (p<0.05).