. 2020 Aug 12;4(3):txaa151. doi: 10.1093/tas/txaa151

Table 3.

Effects of ZnO, carbadox, or various lipid additives on nursery pig growth performance

	3,000 ppm P1 2,000 ppm P2 ZnO	Control	50 g/ton Carbadox	C6, C8, C10 Blend	Proprietary Oil blend by Feed Energy	FORMI GML by ADDCON	SEM	P
BW, kg
d 0 (weaning)	5.42	5.42	5.41	5.42	5.41	5.42	0.009	0.696
d 7	6.10^a	6.02^ab	6.13^a	5.79^b	5.82^ab	6.11^a	0.075	0.003
d 19	10.26^a	9.23^c	10.05^ab	9.34^bc	9.11^c	9.71^abc	0.170	< 0.0001
d 35	18.70	17.66	18.49	17.84	17.47	17.99	0.316	0.06
Phase 1 (d 0 to 7)
ADG, g/d	97^abc	85^abc	103^a	52^c	59^bc	98^ab	10.7	0.003
ADFI, g/d	137^a	116^abc	117^ab	92^bc	85^bc	119^ab	7.3	< 0.0001
G:F	0.68	0.72	0.87	0.57	0.66	0.81	0.071	0.055
Phase 2 (d 8 to 19)
ADG, g/d	347^a	270^c	325^ab	297^bc	278^bc	300^abc	11.4	0.0001
ADFI, g/d	428^a	370^ab	407^ab	361^b	355^b	381^ab	14.2	0.004
G:F	0.81^ab	0.74^b	0.80^ab	0.81^a	0.79^ab	0.79^ab	0.019	0.043
Overall Treatment (d 0 to 19)
ADG, g/d	255^a	202^c	242^ab	207^bc	197^c	226^abc	8.7	< 0.0001
ADFI, g/d	321^a	276^b	298^ab	262^b	255^b	284^ab	10.6	0.0004
G:F	0.79	0.73	0.81	0.79	0.77	0.80	0.018	0.078
Common Phase 3 (d 20 to 35)
ADG, g/d	523	516	533	531	517	518	12.6	0.873
ADFI, g/d	793	756	781	757	723	743	17.9	0.089
G:F	0.66	0.69	0.68	0.70	0.72	0.70	0.015	0.158
Overall (d 0 to 35)
ADG, g/d	377^a	344^ab	374^ab	355^ab	339^b	359^ab	8.5	0.012
ADFI, g/d	536^a	492^ab	517^a	488^ab	463^b	494^ab	11.5	0.001
G:F	0.70	0.70	0.72	0.73	0.73	0.73	0.012	0.32

A total of 360 weanling pigs (6 pigs per pen, 10 pens/treatment) were fed treatment diets during phase 1 (days 0 to 7) and phase 2 (days 8 to d 19). A common diet was fed from days 20 to 35.

^abcMeans within a row that do not share a common superscript differ P < 0.05.