Table 2.

Performance of piglets fed CONd or CDCd prestarter diet^a

	Treatments		SEMb	P > F
	CONd	CDCd
0 to 15 days of study
n	6	6
BW d 0 (kg)	6.3	6.3	0.21	0.83
BW d 14 (kg)	8.4	8.5	0.21	0.39
Average daily gain (g/d)	150	160	13.9	0.63
Average daily feed intake (g/d)	211	214	10.0	0.81
0 to 35 days of study
n	12	12
BW d 0 (kg)	6.2	6.2	0.53	0.44
BW d 35 (kg)	18.5	17.6	0.53	0.44
Average daily gain (g/d)	352	325	21.7	0.38
Average daily feed intake (g/d)	527	479	24.6	0.18
Feed:Gain	1.45	1.21	0.19	0.40
Diarrhoeac (n)	3	3	---	0.46

^aData are least squares means. CONd, prestarter diet; CDCd, prestarter diet supplemented with 60 mg chenodeoxycholic acid per kg of initial BW

^bPooled SEM

^cNumber of events (P > χ ²)