The study was carried out on 36 gilts (♀Polish Large White x ♂Danish Landrace) grown from 60
to 105 kg body weight (BW). Experimental diets were composed on the basis of the control diet
(C), replacing 13% of its energy by energy from linseed oil (group/diet L), rapeseed oil (group/
diet R), beef tallow (group/diet T) or fish oil (group/diet F). All diets contained similar amount of
metabolizable energy and apparent ileal digestible lysine, but had different ratio of PUFA to SFA
and of C18:2n-6 to C18:3n-3. Pigs were slaughtered at 105 kg BW. Protein, fat and fatty acids
(FA) content of the pigs’ empty body was determined by slaughter method. Final empty body of
pigs (at 103.6 kg) of individual groups contained similar amount of protein, fat and total FA, but
different content of individual FA. Increasing the daily consumption of C18:2n-6 and C18:3n-3
acids enhanced their deposition in the body (from 16.18 to 27.70 and from 1.16 to 33.82 g/day,
respectively). Linear correlations were identified between the intake of linoleic and linolenic acids
and their deposition in the empty body (r = 0.96 and r = 0.99, respectively). Efficiency of utilization
of C18:2n-6 was lower than that of C18:3n-3 (coefficient 0.67 vs. 0.79, respectively).