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Table 6.

Effect of different physical forms of creep feed on intestinal morphology in piglets at 10 d after weaning

Items	Group²⁾			SEM	p-value

	PCF	HPCF	SPCF
Duodenum
Villus height (μm)	519^A	715^C	638^B	18.79	<0.01
Crypt depth (μm)	362^A	471^B	367^A	15.78	<0.01
Villus/crypt ratio	1.56^A	1.60^A	1.86^B	0.07	<0.01
Jejunum
Villus height (μm)	192^A	219^B	252^C	6.05	<0.01
Crypt depth (μm)	178^B	188^B	157^A	6.25	<0.01
Villus/crypt ratio	1.17^A	1.30^A	1.79^B	0.07	<0.01
Ileum
Villus height (μm)	251	240	257	7.14	0.24
Crypt depth (μm)	156^A	174^B	151^A	5.49	<0.01
Villus/crypt ratio	1.72^B	1.45^A	1.86^B	0.07	<0.01

SEM, standard error of the mean.

¹⁾

PCF, piglets received powder creep feed; HPCF, piglets received hard pellet creep feed; SPCF, piglets received soft pellet creep feed.

^A–C

Means in the same row with different superscript letters were significantly different (p≤0.05).