Table 2.

Effects of resveratrol and essential oils blend on growth performance and nutrient digestibility of challenged piglets¹

Items	Treatments2				SE3	p-value
	NC	PC	T1	T2
Initial body weight (kg)	8.03	8.09	7.96	8.02	0.54	0.99
Average daily gain (g/d)
0 to 2 wk	291b	400a	295b	246b	62.8	0.03
2 to 4 wk	176b	317a	294a	206b	41.6	<0.01
0 to 4 wk	234c	358a	294b	226c	35.1	<0.01
Average daily feed intake (g/d)
0 to 2 wk	440b	521a	410c	499a	17.8	<0.0001
2 to 4 wk	516c	866a	714b	470d	9.02	<0.0001
0 to 4 wk	478c	694a	562b	484c	10.8	<0.0001
Feed conversion ratio (feed/gain)
0 to 2 wk	1.52b	1.35b	1.45b	2.10a	0.32	0.03
2 to 4 wk	2.94	2.81	2.44	2.42	0.48	0.34
0 to 4 wk	2.05	1.97	1.92	2.17	0.22	0.41
Digestibility of nutrients (%)
Dry matter	74.7c	88.0a	77.4bc	78.7b	1.55	<0.0001
Nitrogen	67.6b	78.4a	70.6b	77.6a	2.83	<0.01

^a,b,c,dMeans in a row with no common superscripts significantly differ (p<0.05).

¹Values represent the means of three pens with four pigs per pen.

²NC (Negative control), basal diet; PC (Positive control), basal diet+0.002% Apramycin; T1, basal diet+0.2% Respig (containing resveratrol); T2, basal diet+0.0125% Biomin PEP; (essential oils blend).

³Pooled standard error.