Table 6.

Effects of dietary supplementation with soybean oil, fish oil and corn starch on weight of internal organs and intestinal weight per length of newborn piglets

	Diet
Item	SO1	FO1	CS1	SEM	P-value
No. of piglets	6	6	6
Piglets with LBW2
Duodenum, g/cm3	0.09	0.08	0.09	0.03	0.91
Jejunum, g/cm	0.06	0.08	0.06	0.01	0.59
Ileum, g/cm	0.06	0.07	0.06	0.00	0.12
Stomach, g/kg BW4	4.99	4.78	5.48	0.26	0.54
Heart, g/kg BW	6.92	6.70	6.90	0.16	0.85
Liver, g/kg BW	21.58b	27.11a	24.63ab	0.94	0.04
Spleen, g/kg BW	0.84	1.05	1.05	0.05	0.12
Lung, g/kg BW	19.09	16.99	15.12	1.20	0.42
Kidney, g/kg BW	7.64	7.47	8.74	0.36	0.31
Pancreas, g/kg BW	0.68b	1.00ab	1.13a	0.05	0.03
Piglets with NBW2
Duodenum, g/cm3	0.11	0.09	0.12	0.01	0.58
Jejunum, g/cm	0.09	0.09	0.09	0.00	0.95
Ileum, g/cm	0.09	0.08	0.10	0.00	0.23
Stomach, g/kg BW4	5.57a	4.13b	4.37b	0.23	0.01
Heart, g/kg BW	6.34	6.74	7.09	0.20	0.33
Liver, g/kg BW	27.49	29.40	28.34	1.22	0.83
Spleen, g/kg BW	0.89	0.95	0.92	0.04	0.84
Lung, g/kg BW	15.69	17.51	16.78	0.75	0.64
Kidney, g/kg BW	6.62	8.14	7.42	0.35	0.21
Pancreas, g/kg BW	0.98	1.09	1.06	0.03	0.45

¹SO = 3.0%/5.0% soybean oil diet group; FO = 3.0%/5.0% fish oil diet group; CS = 32%/42% corn starch diet group.

²LBW = low birth weight; NBW = normal birth weight.

³Intestinal weight per length = intestine weight, g/intestine length, cm.

⁴Weight of internal organ = organ weight, g/piglet birth weight, kg.

^a,bMean values with different superscript letters in the same row differ significantly (P < 0.05).