Table 3.

Effects of dietary supplementation with TA on intestinal growth parameters of weaned piglets¹

	Dietary treatment
Item	CON	AB	TA1	TA2	TA3	P-value
SI length/BW, cm/kg	117.24 ± 4.77	125.37 ± 5.06	118.83 ± 5.26	118.23 ± 4.74	118.46 ± 4.25	0.78
SI weight/BW, g/kg	49.92 ± 1.74	47.13 ± 1.20	44.26 ± 2.62	45.22 ± 0.94	44.58 ± 1.47	0.09
LI length/BW, cm/kg	20.92 ± 1.02	21.47 ± 0.55	21.98 ± 1.06	20.56 ± 1.31	21.72 ± 1.39	0.90
LI weight/BW, g/kg	17.36 ± 0.56ab	19.04 ± 0.78a	17.04 ± 0.79b	15.63 ± 0.50b	16.20 ± 0.57b	<0.01

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

^a,bValues in the same row not sharing a common superscript differ significantly.