Table 1.
Body weight (BW) and average daily gain (ADG) of suckling piglets according to flavors added to late-gestation maternal diets (91–114 days) and creep feed diets (from age 10 days old onwards).
| Creep Feed (Means ± SEM) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | Garlic * | Aniseed * | Unflavored |
| Initial BW (day 4) (kg) | |||
| Sow diet | |||
| Garlic | 1.788 ± 0.19 | 1.604 ± 0.19 | 1.490 ± 0.21 |
| Aniseed | 1.868 ± 0.19 | 1.856 ± 0.19 | 1.853 ± 0.21 |
| Unflavored | 1.800 ± 0.16 | 1.720 ± 0.16 | 1.904 ± 0.15 |
| Final BW (day 20) (kg) | |||
| Sow diet | |||
| Garlic | 6.554 ± 0.34 | 5.912 ± 0.34 | 5.478 ± 0.45 |
| Aniseed | 6.098 ± 0.34 | 6.230 ± 0.34 | 6.223 ± 0.45 |
| Unflavored | 6.321 ± 0.34 | 5.774 ± 0.34 | 5.865 ± 0.32 |
| ADG (days 4 to 20) (kg) | |||
| Sow diet | |||
| Garlic | 0.250 ± 0.02 | 0.236 ± 0.02 | 0.220 ± 0.02 |
| Aniseed | 0.258 ± 0.02 | 0.254 ± 0.02 | 0.260 ± 0.01 |
| Unflavored | 0.249 ± 0.01 | 0.221 ± 0.01 | 0.233 ± 0.01 |
* 0.75 g/kg of artificial garlic or aniseed flavor, Floramatic®, Region Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile.