. 2020 Nov 17;2020:6508494. doi: 10.1155/2020/6508494

Table 2.

Performance of piglets on experimental diets.

Item	Control	Group I	Group II	P value
Initial weight (kg, 28 d weight)	7.25 ± 0.34	7.13 ± 0.30	7.16 ± 0.34	0.173
35 d weight (kg)	9.27 ± 0.63	9.04 ± 0.75	9.31 ± 0.34	0.843
42 d weight (kg)	12.03^A ± 0.73	11.14^B ± 1.76	12.12^A ± 0.34	0.004
49 d weight (kg)	15.74^A ± 0.34	15.30^B ± 0.75	15.62^A ± 0.34	0.002
56 d weight (kg)	19.35^a ± 0.80	19.14^b ± 0.99	19.59^a ± 0.35	0.023
63 d weight (kg)	23.94 ± 0.34	23.62 ± 0.62	23.82 ± 0.34	0.354
Final weight (kg, 70 d weight)	27.92^B ± 0.35	28.33^A ± 0.49	28.52^A ± 0.34	0.006
Average daily gain (kg/day)	0.49 ± 0.01	0.50 ± 0.01	0.51 ± 0.01	0.478
Diarrhea rate	10.00^C ± 0.45	7.70^B ± 0.51	3.71^A ± 0.87	0.003
Feed intake (kg/day)	6.50 ± 0.26^c	5.60 ± 0.29^b	4.98 ± 0.23^a	0.035
Feed conversion ratio	13.27 ± 0.45^c	11.2 ± 0.48^b	9.76 ± 0.43^a	0.047

Note: different lowercase letters in the same row represent significant difference (P < 0.05); different uppercase letters in the same row represent significant difference (P < 0.01); data with the same letter or no letter indicate that the difference was not significant (P > 0.05).