Table 3.

Effects of dietary mannanoligosaccharide supplementation on faecal fermentative attributes of dogs

Attributes	Dietary groups		Significance
	CON	MOS
Physical attributes
Faecal scorea	3.33 ± 0.33	3.60 ± 0.40	NS
Faeces voided (g/day)	156.8 ± 14.8	164.9 ± 14.3	NS
Faecal DM (g/kg)	218.6 ± 21.8	216.6 ± 18.4	NS
Chemical attributes
pH	5.84 ± 0.23	5.77 ± 0.21	NS
Ammonia (μmol/g)	8.45 ± 0.87	8.39 ± 1.24	NS
Lactate (μmol/g)	24.25 ± 2.07	27.85 ± 5.15	NS
Acetate (μmol/g)	134.1 ± 6.12	146.5 ± 11.4	NS
Propionate (μmol/g)	100.4 ± 12.0	97.13 ± 6.77	NS
Butyrate (μmol/g)	31.46 ± 3.04	35.40 ± 1.88	NS
Total SCFAs (μmol/g)	265.9 ± 14.9	278.9 ± 16.2	NS

CON control diet, MOS control diet + mannanoligosaccharide at 15 g/kg diet

^aBased on 1–5 point scale

NS non-significant; P > 0.05, SCFAs short-chain fatty acids