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 4 Pig performance from week 3 to 6 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	-	-
Initial wt, kg	10.45	10.32	10.72	9.44	10.18	10.10	10.78	10.43	0.43	0.457
Final wt, kg	22.32	21.97	22.74	22.21	22.86	22.50	21.71	22.76	0.41	0.437
ADG, kg/pig	0.52	0.51	0.55	0.50	0.54	0.53	0.50	0.54	0.02	0.444
Intake, kg/pig²	0.77^b	0.74^b	0.86^a	0.77^b	0.79^b	0.79^b	0.70^c	0.80^b	0.03	0.022
Feed/gain²	1.39	1.48	1.65	1.49	1.64	1.84	1.66	1.50	0.12	0.271
Mortality,%	0.01	0.00	0.35	0.13	0.16	0.01	0.19	0.01	0.13	0.434
Removed,%	1.01	1.5	1.69	1.62	0.99	1.15	1.69	1.17	0.32	0.497

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.
²For the calculation of feed intake and feed/gain, the number of pens was reduced from 6 to 3 pens because two pens shared a common feeder.
^abcLeast square means within a row lacking a common superscript are different (P < 0.05).

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