Effects of creep feeding and supplemental glutamine or glutamine plus glutamate (Aminogut) on pre- and post-weaning growth performance and intestinal health of piglets

Table 3 Pig performance from week 1 to 3 post-weaning

Variables	NC-CD¹	NC-GLN	NC-AG	CFCD-CD	CFCD-GLN	CFCD-AG	CFGLN-GLN	CFAG-AG	SEM	P value
No. pens	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	-	-
No. pigs	144	144	144	144	144	144	144	144	-	-
Initial wt, kg	6.50	6.35	6.59	6.14	6.39	6.61	6.42	6.52	0.34	0.984
Final wt, kg	10.4	10.20	10.66	9.51	10.06	10.08	10.65	10.34	0.26	0.128
ADG, kg/pig	0.25	0.24	0.25	0.19	0.23	0.22	0.26	0.24	0.02	0.124
Intake, kg/pig	0.33	0.28	0.30	0.27	0.27	0.28	0.29	0.29	0.02	0.644
Feed/gain	1.35^bc	1.17^ab	1.17^ab	1.48^c	1.15^ab	1.30^b	1.11^a	1.21^ab	0.09	0.056
Mortality	0.38	1.43	0.94	1.28	0.80	0.63	0.82	0.73	0.37	0.562
Removed	1.23	0.90	2.00	2.49	1.28	1.03	1.81	0.59	0.70	0.584

¹NC-CD No Creep Control Diet, NC-GLN No Creep Glutamine, NC-AG No Creep AminoGut, CFCD-CD Creep Fed Control Diet-Control Diet.
CFCD-GLN Creep Fed Control Diet-Glutamine, CFCD-AG Creep Fed Control Diet-AminoGut, CFGLN-GLN Creep Fed Glutamine-Glutamine.
CFAG-AG Creep Fed AminoGut-AminoGut. See Figure 1.
^abcLeast square means within a row lacking a common superscript are different (P < 0.05).

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