The impact of replacing barley by dehydrated orange pulp in finishing pig diets on performance, carcass quality, and gaseous emissions from slurry

Using agricultural by-products such as dehydrated orange pulp (DOP) in animal feeds is of interest to increase pig sector sustainability. With this aim, an assay was carried out to assess the effects of increasing inclusion levels of DOP in pig diets regarding animal performance, carcass quality, an...

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Main Authors: Ferrer, Pablo, Calvet, Salvador, García-Rebollar, Paloma, Jiménez-Belenguer, Ana, Hernández, Pilar, Piquer, Olga, Cerisuelo, Alba
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Published: Elsevier 2022
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/8465
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731122002166?via%3Dihub
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author Ferrer, Pablo
Calvet, Salvador
García-Rebollar, Paloma
Jiménez-Belenguer, Ana
Hernández, Pilar
Piquer, Olga
Cerisuelo, Alba
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Cerisuelo, Alba
Ferrer, Pablo
García-Rebollar, Paloma
Hernández, Pilar
Jiménez-Belenguer, Ana
Piquer, Olga
author_facet Ferrer, Pablo
Calvet, Salvador
García-Rebollar, Paloma
Jiménez-Belenguer, Ana
Hernández, Pilar
Piquer, Olga
Cerisuelo, Alba
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description Using agricultural by-products such as dehydrated orange pulp (DOP) in animal feeds is of interest to increase pig sector sustainability. With this aim, an assay was carried out to assess the effects of increasing inclusion levels of DOP in pig diets regarding animal performance, carcass quality, and environmental impact. Four experimental diets were designed, a control diet (T1) and three more diets with increasing levels of DOP with 80, 160, and 240 g/kg of DOP for diets T2, T3, and T4, respectively. One hundred and sixty growing pigs were used in the experiment. Growth performance (average daily gain, ADG; average daily feed intake, ADFI and feed conversion ratio, FCR) and in vivo backfat thickness (BF) and loin depth (LD) gain were recorded during the finishing phase (from 70 to 130 kg BW). Faecal samples were incubated for bacteria enumeration. At slaughter, carcass characteristics and meat quality traits were measured, and subcutaneous fat was sampled to analyse the fatty acid (FA) profile. Additionally, the slurry excreted by the animals was measured, characterised and subjected to a gaseous emission assay during its storage. The final BW and overall ADFI, ADG and FCR were similar among treatments. In vivo final LD and BF gain decreased (P < 0.10) as the inclusion level of DOP increased. No differences were observed in carcass characteristics with the inclusion of DOP, except carcass weight that decreased linearly (P = 0.05) with DOP. Regarding the FA profile of the subcutaneous fat, the ratio of total monounsaturated to saturated FA increased with the inclusion level of DOP. Neither slurry excretion and characterisation nor bacterial counts from faeces showed any significant difference among treatments. The inclusion of DOP led to greater CH4 emissions in mg per L of slurry and hour, whereas these differences disappeared when expressed in mg per animal and day. In all, it has been demonstrated that the inclusion of DOP up to 240 mg/kg in pig diets had minor effects on growth performance, carcass quality traits or gaseous emissions from slurry, favouring the circular economy strategy and pig sector sustainability.
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spelling ReDivia84652025-04-25T14:49:01Z The impact of replacing barley by dehydrated orange pulp in finishing pig diets on performance, carcass quality, and gaseous emissions from slurry Ferrer, Pablo Calvet, Salvador García-Rebollar, Paloma Jiménez-Belenguer, Ana Hernández, Pilar Piquer, Olga Cerisuelo, Alba Citrus pulp Gas emissions Growth performance Pig diets L01 Animal husbandry L02 Animal feeding L51 Animal physiology - Nutrition L70 Veterinary science and hygiene U10 Mathematical and statistical methods Q70 Processing of agricultural wastes Byproducts Swine Using agricultural by-products such as dehydrated orange pulp (DOP) in animal feeds is of interest to increase pig sector sustainability. With this aim, an assay was carried out to assess the effects of increasing inclusion levels of DOP in pig diets regarding animal performance, carcass quality, and environmental impact. Four experimental diets were designed, a control diet (T1) and three more diets with increasing levels of DOP with 80, 160, and 240 g/kg of DOP for diets T2, T3, and T4, respectively. One hundred and sixty growing pigs were used in the experiment. Growth performance (average daily gain, ADG; average daily feed intake, ADFI and feed conversion ratio, FCR) and in vivo backfat thickness (BF) and loin depth (LD) gain were recorded during the finishing phase (from 70 to 130 kg BW). Faecal samples were incubated for bacteria enumeration. At slaughter, carcass characteristics and meat quality traits were measured, and subcutaneous fat was sampled to analyse the fatty acid (FA) profile. Additionally, the slurry excreted by the animals was measured, characterised and subjected to a gaseous emission assay during its storage. The final BW and overall ADFI, ADG and FCR were similar among treatments. In vivo final LD and BF gain decreased (P < 0.10) as the inclusion level of DOP increased. No differences were observed in carcass characteristics with the inclusion of DOP, except carcass weight that decreased linearly (P = 0.05) with DOP. Regarding the FA profile of the subcutaneous fat, the ratio of total monounsaturated to saturated FA increased with the inclusion level of DOP. Neither slurry excretion and characterisation nor bacterial counts from faeces showed any significant difference among treatments. The inclusion of DOP led to greater CH4 emissions in mg per L of slurry and hour, whereas these differences disappeared when expressed in mg per animal and day. In all, it has been demonstrated that the inclusion of DOP up to 240 mg/kg in pig diets had minor effects on growth performance, carcass quality traits or gaseous emissions from slurry, favouring the circular economy strategy and pig sector sustainability. 2022-12-14T16:00:09Z 2022-12-14T16:00:09Z 2022 article publishedVersion Ferrer, P., Calvet, S., García-Rebollar, P., Jiménez-Belenguer, A., Hernández, P., Piquer, O. et al. (2022). The impact of replacing barley by dehydrated orange pulp in finishing pig diets on performance, carcass quality, and gaseous emissions from slurry. Animal, 16(11), 100659. 1751-7311 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/8465 10.1016/j.animal.2022.100659 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731122002166?via%3Dihub en info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//AGL2014-56653 This project was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (AGL2014-56653). Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ openAccess Elsevier electronico
spellingShingle Citrus pulp
Gas emissions
Growth performance
Pig diets
L01 Animal husbandry
L02 Animal feeding
L51 Animal physiology - Nutrition
L70 Veterinary science and hygiene
U10 Mathematical and statistical methods
Q70 Processing of agricultural wastes
Byproducts
Swine
Ferrer, Pablo
Calvet, Salvador
García-Rebollar, Paloma
Jiménez-Belenguer, Ana
Hernández, Pilar
Piquer, Olga
Cerisuelo, Alba
The impact of replacing barley by dehydrated orange pulp in finishing pig diets on performance, carcass quality, and gaseous emissions from slurry
title The impact of replacing barley by dehydrated orange pulp in finishing pig diets on performance, carcass quality, and gaseous emissions from slurry
title_full The impact of replacing barley by dehydrated orange pulp in finishing pig diets on performance, carcass quality, and gaseous emissions from slurry
title_fullStr The impact of replacing barley by dehydrated orange pulp in finishing pig diets on performance, carcass quality, and gaseous emissions from slurry
title_full_unstemmed The impact of replacing barley by dehydrated orange pulp in finishing pig diets on performance, carcass quality, and gaseous emissions from slurry
title_short The impact of replacing barley by dehydrated orange pulp in finishing pig diets on performance, carcass quality, and gaseous emissions from slurry
title_sort impact of replacing barley by dehydrated orange pulp in finishing pig diets on performance carcass quality and gaseous emissions from slurry
topic Citrus pulp
Gas emissions
Growth performance
Pig diets
L01 Animal husbandry
L02 Animal feeding
L51 Animal physiology - Nutrition
L70 Veterinary science and hygiene
U10 Mathematical and statistical methods
Q70 Processing of agricultural wastes
Byproducts
Swine
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/8465
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731122002166?via%3Dihub
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