Table 3.

Performance of piglets fed the experimental diets and orally challenged with Salmonella Typhimurium at d 8

	Treatments1
Item	CON	PRO	BUT	SEM2	P-value
BW, kg
Initial	8.3	8.2	8.3	0.05	0.172
Final	11.0	10.2	10.6	0.69	0.725
ADFI, g/d
Pre-inoculation3	191	185	184	16.2	0.941
Post-inoculation4	360	336	385	46.1	0.759
ADG, g/d
Pre-inoculation	67.5	38.0	37.5	30.28	0.734
Post-inoculation	243	198	208	54.30	0.835
G:F
Overall5	0.62	0.48	0.46	0.136	0.668

¹Treatments: CON, plain diet without additives; PRO, plain diet supplemented with 1 kg/t of Proporc (10⁹ cfu/kg of feed of Bacillus licheniformis); BUT, plain diet supplemented with 3 kg/t of Gustor BP70 (2.1g of partially protected sodium butyrate salt/kg of feed).

²Pooled SEM; n = 8/treatment.

³Experimental d 0 to 7.

⁴Experimental d 8 to 16 (0 to 8 PI).

⁵Experimental d 1 to 16.