Table 1.

Effects of dietary supplementation with TA on growth performance of weaned piglets¹

	Dietary treatment
Item	CON	AB	TA1	TA2	TA3	P-value
BW, kg
Initial	6.00 ± 0.28	5.98 ± 0.32	5.99 ± 0.29	5.98 ± 0.27	5.99 ± 0.28	1.00
Final	8.12 ± 0.45	8.14 ± 0.48	7.88 ± 0.38	8.17 ± 0.40	7.98 ± 0.36	0.98
ADFI, g/d
Day 0 to 7	185.35 ± 13.60	208.28 ± 20.38	171.13 ±18.38	202.30 ± 12.01	183.49 ± 11.11	0.45
Day 8 to 14	501.91 ± 36.37	539.04 ± 55.02	467.55 ± 40.10	489.32 ± 31.53	467.23 ± 35.84	0.72
Day 0 to 14	331.46 ± 23.19	360.94 ±3 6.22	307.94 ± 24.54	334.77 ± 19.73	314.45 ± 21.60	0.64
ADG, kg/d
Day 0 to 7	0.07 ± 0.01	0.05 ± 0.03	0.05 ± 0.02	0.09 ± 0.02	0.06 ± 0.01	0.51
Day 8 to 14	0.27 ± 0.02	0.31 ± 0.03	0.26 ± 0.03	0.25 ± 0.03	0.26 ± 0.03	0.69
Day 0 to 14	0.18 ± 0.02	0.18 ± 0.03	0.16 ± 0.02	0.18 ± 0.02	0.17 ± 0.02	0.92
FCR, g/g
Day 0 to 7	2.51 ± 0.43	3.20 ± 1.09	3.04 ± 0.87	2.74 ± 0.41	3.10 ± 0.91	0.95
Day 8 to 14	1.85 ± 0.06	1.77 ± 0.13	1.89 ± 0.08	2.02 ± 0.14	1.84 ± 0.10	0.54
Day 0 to 14	1.93 ± 0.10	1.97 ± 0.17	2.06 ± 0.15	1.95 ± 0.14	1.98 ± 0.12	0.97

¹Values are expressed as mean ± SEM; n = 9.