Table 2.

Effects of dietary putrescine supplementation on growth performance and diarrhea incidence in weanling piglets

Item	Putrescine dihydrochloride, %				SEM	P-value
	0	0.1	0.2	0.3
Body weight, kg
D 0	7.38	7.38	7.38	7.37	0.55	0.93
D 14	9.54	9.40	9.84	9.23	0.70	0.59
ADG, g/d	155	127	176	125	19	0.19
ADFI, g/d	290	230	307	242	23	0.12
G:F	0.54	0.53	0.57	0.53	0.05	0.92
Diarrhea incidence, %
D 0–7	16.67a	14.69ab	7.64b	19.44a	–	0.03
D 8–13	24.07	18.63	10.19	17.59	–	0.06
D 0–13	19.84a	16.33a	8.73b	18.65a	–	< 0.01

Note: n = 6. ADFI average daily feed intake, ADG average daily gain, G:F gain to feed ratio D day

^a,bWithin a row, means not sharing the same superscript differ (P < 0.05)