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Damian Józefiak

good option is to measure digesta viscosity like in poultry, even though viscosity has less impact on nutrient absorption in pigs, still it changes due to carbohydrate composition, particle size, polymerization etc. Moreover it is also easy to show post mortem changes just placing digesta in scaled cylinder measuring water and solid fraction.

See attached papers...

somehow I cannot add pdf files :( will try later

Saymore Petros Ndou

Thank you Damian, the links to the pdf files will do too.

send me your e-mail to [email protected] and I will transfer some papers