Table 5.

Effects of high fiber diet and HF-FMT during gestation on growth performance of lactation piglets

Items	Treatment			SEM	P-value
	LF	LFM	HF		Trt	Time	Trt × time
No. of observations	20	20	20	-	-
Litter size, n
No. of piglets after cross-foster, n/litter	12.89	12.61	12.68	0.13	0.830
D 7 of lactation	12.42	12.69	12.59	0.25	0.533	< 0.001	0.444
D 14 of lactation	11.89	12.14	12.11
D 21 of lactation	11.52	12.09	11.88
BW of piglets, kg
BW of piglets after cross-foster, kg/head	1.50	1.52	1.55	0.04	0.762
D 7 of lactation	2.52	2.70	2.61	0.08	0.216
D 14 of lactation	3.86	4.28	4.08	0.13	0.074
D 21 of lactation	5.40b	5.96a	5.60ab	0.16	0.048
Litter weight, kg
Litter weight after cross-fos ter, kg	19.02	19.52	19.88	0.54	0.528
D 7 of lactation	30.63b	33.97a	33.82ab	0.97	0.027
D 14 of lactation	46.41	51.58	49.09	1.61	0.083
D 21 of lactation	64.14	70.31	67.08	1.93	0.089
Litter weight gain, kg
1st week of lactation	11.62b	14.46a	13.95ab	0.76	0.024
2nd week of lactation	14.18	17.83	16.72	1.45	0.194
3rd week of lactation	17.79	19.81	19.04	0.80	0.200
D 1 to 21 of lactation	42.47b	52.09a	49.64ab	2.45	0.016
Piglet mean ADG (g/d)
1st week of lactation	147.83	162.63	156.21	6.05	0.226
2nd week of lactation	191.87	224.42	209.37	12.19	0.172
3rd week of lactation	220.18	240.34	217.33	9.22	0.166
D 1 to 21 of lactation	185.70b	209.46a	193.34ab	6.33	0.031

Data were shown as least squares mean with their SEM. ^a,bValues within a row with different superscripts differ (P < 0.05)

LF Low fiber diet during gestation, n = 20, LFM Low fiber diet + fecal microbiota transplantation from HF sow during gestation, n = 20, HF High fiber diet during gestation, n = 20, SEM Pooled standard error of means