Digestibility of a home-made diet and two dog foods, standard and super-premium, for dogs

Authors

  • Ananda Portella Félix UFPR
  • Cristina Maria Lima Sá-Fortes Vaccinar
  • Ana Cláudia Martins Silva FE-UNESP/ Ilha Solteira
  • Sheila Tavares Nascimento ESALQ
  • Aulus Cavalieri Carciofi FCAV-UNESP/ Jaboticabal
  • Antonio Carlos Laurentiz FE-UNESP/ Ilha Solteira
  • Antonio Fernando Bergamaschine FE-UNESP/Ilha Solteira

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/avs.v14i1.13228

Keywords:

alimento caseiro, nutrição de cães, ração, home-made food, dog nutrition, pet food

Abstract

They were compared the coefficients of apparent digestibility (CAD) and the fecal qualityof dogs fed a home-made diet and two dog foods, standard and super-premium. Six adultdogs were distributed in a double latin square desing (3 x 3), with three treatments andthree periods, in a total of six replications per treatment. Tukey’s test was used to comparethe means. The home-made diet presented the highest CAD, not differing only of the CADof acid ether extract of the super-premium food. The standard food was the lowestdigestive, producting more feces. Fecal dry matter of dogs fed home-made diet was lowerthan in the standard and super-premium foods, which did not differ among then. Fecalscore presented low variability among treatments, remaining in the considered ideal range.Home-made diet can be an alternative in the feeding of dogs.

Author Biographies

Ananda Portella Félix, UFPR

Zootecnista - Aluna de Pós-graduação em Ciências Veterinárias - UFPR

Cristina Maria Lima Sá-Fortes, Vaccinar

Zootecnista. Msc. Dr. Nutrição Animal

Ana Cláudia Martins Silva, FE-UNESP/ Ilha Solteira

Zootecnista

Sheila Tavares Nascimento, ESALQ

Zootecnista - Aluna de Pós-graduação ESALQ

Aulus Cavalieri Carciofi, FCAV-UNESP/ Jaboticabal

Departamento de Clínica e Cirurgia Veterinária - FCAV - UNESP/Jaboticabal

Antonio Carlos Laurentiz, FE-UNESP/ Ilha Solteira

Departamento de Biologia e Zootecnia - FE - UNESP/Ilha Solteira

Antonio Fernando Bergamaschine, FE-UNESP/Ilha Solteira

Departamento de Biologia e Zootecnia - FE - UNESP/Ilha Solteira

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Published

2009-12-03

How to Cite

Félix, A. P., Sá-Fortes, C. M. L., Silva, A. C. M., Nascimento, S. T., Carciofi, A. C., Laurentiz, A. C., & Bergamaschine, A. F. (2009). Digestibility of a home-made diet and two dog foods, standard and super-premium, for dogs. Archives of Veterinary Science, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.5380/avs.v14i1.13228

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2009)

Section

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

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