Table 10.

Effects of GAA supplementation on growth performance and health of offspring piglets of sows from the 88th day before delivery to the whole lactation period.

Item	Control group	GAA group	p-value
Litter size at weaning, head	11.13 ± 0.40	11.63 ± 0.26	0.312
Litter weight at 5 d, kg	29.07 ± 2.22	26.58 ± 0.67	0.313
Litter weight at weaning, kg	70.86 ± 5.21	78.03 ± 1.06	0.217
Litter weight gain, kg	41.79 ± 3.41b	51.45 ± 1.07a	0.026
Individual piglet weight, kg	6.89 ± 0.28	6.73 ± 0.13	0.613
ADG of piglet, g	236.62 ± 10.69	261.20 ± 7.01	0.070
Piglet diarrhea rate, %	0.06 ± 0.06	0.17 ± 0.08	0.346
Survival rate, %	91.89 ± 2.98	92.23 ± 2.06	0.927