Table 3.
Effect of curcumin (CUR) and piperine (PIP) on growth performance of weaned Wuzhishan piglets.
| Items | Treatmentsa | SEMb | P | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON | PIP | Low-CUR | PIP + CUR | High-CUR | |||
| Initial weight (kg) | 3.42 | 3.66 | 3.52 | 3.63 | 3.49 | 0.072 | 0.864 |
| Final weight (kg) | 5.01 | 5.31 | 5.16 | 5.62 | 5.57 | 0.124 | 0.535 |
| ADG (g/day)c | 75.7 2 | 78.73 | 78.23 | 94.77 | 98.87 | 3.841 | 0.171 |
| ADFI (g/day)d | 172.63 | 166.80 | 170.07 | 175.27 | 185.83 | 6.132 | 0.923 |
| F/Ge | 2.29f | 2.13f | 2.18f | 1.83g | 1.89g | 0.054 | 0.005 |
a
CON: a corn–soybean basal diet; PIP, low-CUR, PIP + CUR and high-CUR, the basal diet supplemented with 50 mg/kg piperine, 200 mg/kg curcumin, 200 mg/kg curcumin + 50 mg/kg piperine, and 300 mg/kg curcumin, respectively.
b
SEM, standard error of the mean (n = 10).
c
ADG, average daily body weight gain.
d
ADFI, average daily feed intake.
e
F/G, the ratio of feed to gain.
fg
means in the same row with different letters differ significantly (P < 0.05).