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Table 4 Effects of dietary essential oil on the performance, fecal consistency and nutrient digestibility of weaned pigs 1

From: Essential oil and aromatic plants as feed additives in non-ruminant nutrition: a review

Item

PC

NC

EO

SEM

Performance

    

 Weight gain, g/d

382a

348b

383a

4.50

 Feed intake, g/d

633

636

631

11.98

 Feed conversion

1.65a

1.82b

1.64a

0.04

 Feed consistency

1.42b

1.44b

1.29a

0.07

Nutrient digestibility, %

    

 Dry matter

81.2a

79.2b

81.2a

0.48

 Crude protein

79.3a

73.3b

79.2a

0.85

 Energy

79.9a

76.3b

81.1a

0.57

 Calcium

56.3

57.0

59.5

1.65

 Phosphorus

56.3

56.0

60.0

1.61

  1. Zeng et al. [20].
  2. 1Values represent the mean of twelve pens with four pigs per pen. The dietary treatments were: PC (positive control); NC (negative control, 150 kJ/kg DE lower than the PC diet); EO (NC diet supplemented with 0.025% EO product which contained at least 4.5% cinnamaldehyde and 13.5% thymol).
  3. a,bMeans in the same row with different superscripts are significantly different (P < 0.05).