Animal Bioscience

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New prediction models for gross energy of pig urine using urinary nitrogen concentration and body weight: technical note

  • Hyunseok Do (Department of Animal Science, Konkuk University) ;
  • Bokyung Hong (Department of Animal Science, Konkuk University) ;
  • Jeonghyeon Son (Department of Animal Science, Konkuk University) ;
  • Noa Park (Department of Animal Science, Konkuk University) ;
  • Beob Gyun Kim (Department of Animal Science, Konkuk University)
  • Received : 2025.02.14
  • Accepted : 2025.04.08
  • Published : 2025.09.01
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Abstract

The objectives were to evaluate previous equations for estimating gross energy (GE) of pig urine using urinary nitrogen (N) and to develop novel equations for estimating GE concentrations of pig urine. A total of 136 urine samples were obtained from pigs fed 18 diets in 2 experiments. The samples were analyzed for GE and N concentrations. The accuracy of previous equations was assessed by regressing the measured values minus the predicted values for urinary GE concentration on the predicted values centered to the mean. Novel equations for estimating the urinary GE concentration were developed using urinary N concentration and body weight (BW) as independent variables. The previous equations overestimated (mean bias; p<0.001) urinary GE concentrations and the overestimation was more pronounced for the low-GE urine samples (linear bias; p<0.001). The novel equations developed in the present work were: urinary GE concentration (kcal/kg) = -7.51+12.83×urinary N (r2 = 0.92 and p<0.001) and -16.33+14.00×urinary N+0.192×BW-0.030×urinary N×BW (R2 = 0.92 and p<0.001) where N as g/kg and BW as kg. Overall, the previous equations overestimate urinary GE, particularly for low-GE urine of pigs. Gross energy concentrations in urine can be fairly accurately estimated using urinary N concentration and BW.

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This work was supported by the Rural Development Administration (Republic of Korea; PJ016911).

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