Two tests have been undertaken to investigate the influence of feeding microbial biomasses to pigs. No alterations of the fat parameters characterizing the fat stability were observed. All the values obtained are in a normal range. Increases in heptadecenic acid were detected dependent on the content of microbial biomasses in the feed and its fat content. The alterations are mainly in a normal range or slightly beyond it. In nature odd-numbered fatty acids are ubiquitous. Uptake and storage suggest that the organism reacts to an increased offer of C17-fatty acids with an accelerated decomposition of these fatty acids or/and with inhibition of their endogenous synthesis. The results are discussed in comparison with those of literature.
For several weeks, boars were fed feedstuff containing mycotoxins (zearalenone, nivalenol, and deoxynivalenol). To determine a possible mutagenic effect of this feedstuff, the boars were examinated for structural chromosome aberrations in the lymphocytes. The investigations indicate a genotoxic effect on the boars' lymphocytes.
These investigations show that daily retention in the course of growth is subject to dynamic changes specific for each nutrient. While there are only insignificant differences between daily live weight growth as the practically usable parameter and body weight growth, daily dry matter deposition takes a comparatively different development. The specific development of dry matter deposition depends on the daily retention of protein and fat. Whereas in early age protein retention is higher, fat retention increases in the course of live weight development in dependence on the energy level. Different energy supply results in distinctly differentiated protein, fat and energy retention per day. The highest variation in daily retention could be ascertained for fat retention in dependence on energy supply. A comparison of the cumulated experimental results with model values generalised from the growth function corresponded well.
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