. 2022 Nov 17;12:19749. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-23811-8

Table 3.

Effects of total dietary fiber levels and soluble, insoluble dietary fiber ratio on piglet performance.

Treatment	HH	HL	LH	LL	SEM	P-value
Total DF, %	20	20	14	14		Fiber	Ratio	Fiber × ratio
SF:ISF	1:4	1:6	1:4	1:6		Fiber	Ratio	Fiber × ratio
Litter size
Total born	13.30	13.30	12.90	12.80	0.28	0.430	0.930	0.792
Born alive	12.40	12.40	12.10	11.70	0.26	0.385	0.771	0.771
Weaned	11.40	11.40	10.90	10.50	0.37	0.226	0.320	0.911
Survivability of piglets, %	92.59	92.59	91.75	89.10	1.29	0.738	0.290	0.997
Piglet weight, kg
At birth	1.31	1.27	1.29	1.28	0.02	0.700	0.212	0.488
At weaning	6.13^a	5.76^ab	5.60^b	5.49^b	0.12	0.002	0.048	0.264
Litter weight, kg
At birth	17.53	16.74	16.48	16.41	0.37	0.226	0.790	0.554
At weaning	69.65^a	63.21^ab	61.24^ab	57.04^b	2.72	0.011	0.058	0.682

SEM standard error of means, DF dietary fiber, SF soluble fiber, ISF insoluble fiber.

^a,bMeans with different superscripts within rows are significantly different at (P < 0.05).