Table 2.

Post-weaning performance of piglets injected i.p. with saline (Control) or 20 mg/kg BW of sodium cromolyn (Cromolyn) at −0.5, 8 and 16 h relative to weaning^a

	Treatments
Item	Control	Cromolyn	SEM	P > F
N	10	10
Body weight, kg
Initial body weight, d 1	6.3	6.6	0.2	0.418
Final body weight, d 36	16.5	17.9	0.2	0.002
Average daily gain, g/d	234.7	283.1	11.7	0.006
Average daily feed intake, g/db	313.4	369.0	13.6	0.009
Gain:feedb	0.40	0.59	0.2	0.042

^aValues are least squares means ± SEM

^bCalculated using data until d 29