Digestion of a diet very high in fibre in Cuban Creole pigs

In two groups of eight Cuban Creole pigs and twelve pigs of an improved breed (CC21), 60 kg liveweight, studies were made of apparent digestibility of a diet very high in fibre with 300.0 g kg−1 diet of plantain foliage meal. The crude fibre and neutral detergent fibre contents of the diet were 144.6 and 246.4 g kg−1 DM, respectively. Daily faecal output of water and short chain fatty acids was significantly greater in Creole pigs than in CC21 pigs. Digestion of a diet very high in fibre does not appear to be greater in Creole pigs. Improved pigs digested most of the diet components better than the Creole pigs.