Table 1.

Effect of dietary sodium acetate (SA) supplementation on reproductive performance of sows.

Item	Treatment group1		SEM	P-value
	CON	SA
Parity	3.43	3.40	0.16	0.912
Total litter size	13.88	13.65	0.61	0.797
Weak offspring	1.03	0.53	0.19	0.065
Stillbirths	0.80	0.55	0.14	0.222
Mummy	0.20	0.25	0.08	0.674
Live births	13.03	13.40	0.53	0.375
Litter weight, kg	18.82	19.55	0.77	0.506
Individual birth weight, kg	1.47	1.47	0.04	0.993
Weaning to estrus interval, d	4.08	4.23	0.11	0.325
ADFI, kg
Week 1 of lactation	3.48	3.51	0.12	0.876
Week 2 of lactation	4.72	4.72	0.17	0.989
Week 3 of lactation	5.60	5.58	0.13	0.889
Lactation	4.60	4.60	0.10	0.991
Sow backfat thickness, mm
Day 85 of gestation	18.60	18.98	0.60	0.663
Day 114 of gestation	17.73	18.18	0.66	0.629
Day 21 of lactation	16.33	17.00	0.62	0.445
Late pregnancy loss, mm	0.88	0.80	0.26	0.839
Lactation loss, mm	1.40	1.18	0.31	0.605

ADFI = average daily feed intake; SEM = standard error of the mean.

¹CON, sows were fed a base diet; SA, sows were fed a basal diet supplemented with 0.1% sodium acetate (n = 40).