Dietary fiber during gestation improves lactational feed intake of sows by modulating gut microbiota

Table 5 Effects of high fiber diet and HF-FMT during gestation on growth performance of lactation piglets

Items	Treatment			SEM	P-value
Items	LF	LFM	HF	SEM	Trt	Time	Trt × time
No. of observations	20	20	20	-	-
Litter size, n
No. of piglets after cross-foster, n/litter	12.89	12.61	12.68	0.13	0.830
D 7 of lactation	12.42	12.69	12.59	0.25	0.533	< 0.001	0.444
D 14 of lactation	11.89	12.14	12.11
D 21 of lactation	11.52	12.09	11.88
BW of piglets, kg
BW of piglets after cross-foster, kg/head	1.50	1.52	1.55	0.04	0.762
D 7 of lactation	2.52	2.70	2.61	0.08	0.216
D 14 of lactation	3.86	4.28	4.08	0.13	0.074
D 21 of lactation	5.40^b	5.96^a	5.60^ab	0.16	0.048
Litter weight, kg
Litter weight after cross-fos ter, kg	19.02	19.52	19.88	0.54	0.528
D 7 of lactation	30.63^b	33.97^a	33.82^ab	0.97	0.027
D 14 of lactation	46.41	51.58	49.09	1.61	0.083
D 21 of lactation	64.14	70.31	67.08	1.93	0.089
Litter weight gain, kg
1^st week of lactation	11.62^b	14.46^a	13.95^ab	0.76	0.024
2^nd week of lactation	14.18	17.83	16.72	1.45	0.194
3^rd week of lactation	17.79	19.81	19.04	0.80	0.200
D 1 to 21 of lactation	42.47^b	52.09^a	49.64^ab	2.45	0.016
Piglet mean ADG (g/d)
1^st week of lactation	147.83	162.63	156.21	6.05	0.226
2^nd week of lactation	191.87	224.42	209.37	12.19	0.172
3^rd week of lactation	220.18	240.34	217.33	9.22	0.166
D 1 to 21 of lactation	185.70^b	209.46^a	193.34^ab	6.33	0.031

Data were shown as least squares mean with their SEM. ^a,bValues within a row with different superscripts differ (P < 0.05)
LF Low fiber diet during gestation, n = 20, LFM Low fiber diet + fecal microbiota transplantation from HF sow during gestation, n = 20, HF High fiber diet during gestation, n = 20, SEM Pooled standard error of means

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