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Table 2 Effects of dietary putrescine supplementation on growth performance and diarrhea incidence in weanling piglets

From: Putrescine mitigates intestinal atrophy through suppressing inflammatory response in weanling piglets

Item

Putrescine dihydrochloride, %

SEM

P-value

0

0.1

0.2

0.3

Body weight, kg

 D 0

7.38

7.38

7.38

7.37

0.55

0.93

 D 14

9.54

9.40

9.84

9.23

0.70

0.59

ADG, g/d

155

127

176

125

19

0.19

ADFI, g/d

290

230

307

242

23

0.12

G:F

0.54

0.53

0.57

0.53

0.05

0.92

Diarrhea incidence, %

 D 0–7

16.67a

14.69ab

7.64b

19.44a

0.03

 D 8–13

24.07

18.63

10.19

17.59

0.06

 D 0–13

19.84a

16.33a

8.73b

18.65a

< 0.01

  1. Note: n = 6. ADFI average daily feed intake, ADG average daily gain, G:F gain to feed ratio D day
  2. a,bWithin a row, means not sharing the same superscript differ (P < 0.05)