Replacing wheat bran by corn gluten feed without steep water in complete dog food

• Main Authors: Juliana de Melo Pires, Lívia Geraldi Ferreira, Flávia Maria de Oliveira Borges Saad, Márcio Gilberto Zangeronimo, Ives Cláudio da Silva Bueno, Aline Duarte de Souza Carneiro, Graziane Ferrer Corrêa, Giuliana Parisi, Roberta Ariboni Brandi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
• Series: Italian Journal of Animal Science
• Subjects: By-product; fibre; nutrition; dog; pet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1828051X.2017.1335183

Twenty-four adult Beagles were utilised to evaluate the partial replacement of wheat bran with corn gluten feed without steep water on digestibility and characteristics of faeces. The treatments were 0 (no substitution), 30, 60 or 90 g/kg of corn gluten without steep water. There was no effect (p > .05) on the digestibility coefficients (g/kg) of dry matter (0.771), organic matter (0.806), crude protein (0.813), ether extract (0.798), crude fibre (0.393), neutral detergent fibre (0.425), acid detergent fibre (0.286) and crude energy (0.812), whilst there was effect (p < .05) on the digestible and metabolisable energy. There were effects (p < .05) for dry matter and pH of faeces but no effect (p > .05) was found on the remaining faecal characteristics: excretion for 100 g of food (56.77 g), excretion (129.6 g/day and 49.0 g dry matter/day), score (3.90), dry matter excretion for 100 g of food (22.86 g), buffering capacity (BC) at pH 5 (57.81), ammonia nitrogen (1.46 g/kg of faecal dry matter) and water balance (333.25 mL/day), in vivo and in situ gas production (p > .05). Corn gluten feed without steep water can be utilised to replace up to 90 g/kg of wheat bran without causing negative effect on the digestibility and characteristics of faeces.