Table 4.
Blood biomarkers and spleen weight in growth-finishing swine reared under.
Items | Groups 1 | |||||
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CON | CON0.4 | DLSC | DLS0.4 | SEM 2 | P -value | |
IgG, μg/mL | 250.1a | 208.7b | 211.3b | 156.30c | 8.330 | 0.027 |
Cortisol, μg/dL | 7.21a | 5.17b | 6.01b | 4.28c | 0.242 | 0.010 |
Heterophils (H), % | 127.8a | 88.17c | 93.78b | 65.72d | 0.892 | 0.010 |
Lymphocytes (L), % | 27.85a | 25.70b | 26.03b | 21.72c | 3.102 | 0.010 |
H/L ratio | 4.59a | 3.43b | 3.60b | 3.02c | 0.009 | 0.001 |
Spleen, % BW | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.003 | 0.001 |
CON (control group with a conventional livestock system without a probiotic mixture), CON0.4 (conventional livestock system with a 0.4% probiotic mixture), DLSC (digital livestock system without a probiotic mixture), and DLS0.4 (digital livestock system with a 0.4% probiotic mixture).
Standard error of mean values, n = 10.
Mean values with different superscripts are significantly different at P < 0.05.