Kafkas Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi 2018 , Vol 24 , Issue 5
Evaluation of Dietary Synbiotic Supplementation on Growth Performance, Muscle Antioxidant Ability and Mineral Accumulations, and Meat Quality in Late-finishing Pigs
Ye Fei CHENG1, Yue Ping CHEN1, Ming Fang DU1, Chao WEN1, Yan Min ZHOU1
1College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. CHINA DOI : 10.9775/kvfd.2018.19713 The present study aimed to investigate the effects of synbiotic supplementation on growth performance, muscle antioxidant capacity and mineral contents, and meat quality in late-finishing pigs. Fifty barrow pigs were randomly allocated into two treatments with five replicates each and fed a basal diet supplemented with or without 1 g/kg synbiotic consisted of prebiotics (yeast cell wall and xylooligosaccharide) and probiotics (Clostridium butyricum, Bacillus licheniformis, and Bacillus subtilis) for 21 days, respectively. Treatment did not affect growth performance in late-finishing pigs (P>0.05). Compared with the control group, pigs in the synbiotic group exhibited a higher superoxide dismutase activity in the Longissimus dorsi (LD) muscle, whereas a lower malondialdehyde concentration in the gluteus muscle (P<0.05). Additionally, dietary synbiotic inclusion decreased drip loss in the LD and gluteus muscles at 48 h post-mortem, and cooking loss in the LD muscle compared with the control group (P<0.05). In contrast, dietary synbiotic supplementation numerically reduced total lead retention in the gluteus muscle (P<0.1). The results suggested that dietary synbiotic supplementation to the diet of late-finishing pigs would enhance muscle antioxidant capacity, improve meat quality, whereas numerically reduce muscle lead retention. Keywords : Synbiotic, Muscle antioxidant capacity, Meat quality, Mineral accumulations, Late-finishing pigs