Table 3.

Effects of dietary supplemented with exogenous CAT on growth performance of weaned piglets (Exp. 1)

Items	CON1	CAT1	P-value
BW, kg
Day 0	6.90 ± 0.01	6.90 ± 0.01	0.977
Day 21	8.54 ± 0.22	8.86 ± 0.34	0.425
Day 35	14.72 ± 0.36	15.56 ± 0.32	0.120
ADG, kg
Day 1–21	0.08 ± 0.01	0.09 ± 0.02	0.427
Day 22–35	0.44 ± 0.01	0.48 ± 0.02	0.211
Day 1–35	0.22 ± 0.01	0.25 ± 0.01	0.121
ADFI, kg
Day 1–21	0.19 ± 0.01	0.20 ± 0.02	0.837
Day 22–35	0.70 ± 0.02	0.73 ± 0.02	0.315
Day 1–35	0.39 ± 0.01	0.41 ± 0.01	0.448
G:F
Day 1–21	0.40 ± 0.04	0.46 ± 0.05	0.350
Day 22–35	0.64 ± 0.01	0.65 ± 0.02	0.525
Day 1–35	0.57 ± 0.01	0.60 ± 0.01	0.016

¹CON, piglets fed basal diet; CAT, piglets fed basal diet supplemented with 2,000 mg/kg exogenous CAT production.

Values are mean ± standard error (n = 6). Differences between treatments were considered significant at P < 0.05.