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. 2013 Aug 3;4(1):29. doi: 10.1186/2049-1891-4-29

Table 3.

Pig performance from week 1 to 3 post-weaning

Variables NC-CD1 NC-GLN NC-AG CFCD-CD CFCD-GLN CFCD-AG CFGLN-GLN CFAG-AG SEM P value
No. pens
 6
 6
 6
 6
 6
 6
 6
 6
 -
 -
No. pigs
 144
 144
 144
 144
 144
 144
 144
 144
 -
 -
Initial wt, kg
 6.50
 6.35
 6.59
 6.14
 6.39
 6.61
 6.42
 6.52
 0.34
 0.984
Final wt, kg
 10.4
 10.20
 10.66
 9.51
 10.06
 10.08
 10.65
 10.34
 0.26
 0.128
ADG, kg/pig
 0.25
 0.24
 0.25
 0.19
 0.23
 0.22
 0.26
 0.24
 0.02
 0.124
Intake, kg/pig
 0.33
 0.28
 0.30
 0.27
 0.27
 0.28
 0.29
 0.29
 0.02
 0.644
Feed/gain
 1.35bc
 1.17ab
 1.17ab
 1.48c
 1.15ab
 1.30b
 1.11a
 1.21ab
 0.09
 0.056
Mortality
 0.38
 1.43
 0.94
 1.28
 0.80
 0.63
 0.82
 0.73
 0.37
 0.562
Removed 1.23 0.90 2.00 2.49 1.28 1.03 1.81 0.59 0.70 0.584

1NC-CD No Creep Control Diet, NC-GLN No Creep Glutamine, NC-AG No Creep AminoGut, CFCD-CD Creep Fed Control Diet-Control Diet.

CFCD-GLN Creep Fed Control Diet-Glutamine, CFCD-AG Creep Fed Control Diet-AminoGut, CFGLN-GLN Creep Fed Glutamine-Glutamine.

CFAG-AG Creep Fed AminoGut-AminoGut. See Figure 1.

abcLeast square means within a row lacking a common superscript are different (P < 0.05).