Table 3.

Body weight, daily weight gain and feed intake of lambs fed curcumin nanocapsules.

Item	Treatments1				SEM	P-value
	T0	T1	T2	T4		Treat	Treat × day
Body weight, kg						0.16	0.46
d 0	15.8	15.8	15.8	15.8	0.20
d 7	17.4	17.9	18.1	17.7	0.20
d 12	19.1	19.4	19.7	19.1	0.20
d 17	20.4	20.8	21.2	20.6	0.20
Average daily gain, kg/d
d 0 to 7	0.224	0.298	0.324	0.273	0.02	0.30
d 0 to 12	0.268	0.299	0.322	0.272	0.02	0.18
d 0 to 17	0.269b	0.292ab	0.316a	0.281ab	0.01	0.05
Concentrate intake, g/d
d 0 to 7	300	300	300	300	0.00	–
d 8 to 17	400	400	400	400	0.00	–
Silage intake2 (DM), g/d
d 8 to 17	356	364	346	359	2.32	0.83

^{a, b} Within a row, means without out a common superscript differs (P ≤ 0.05) or tends to differ (P ≤ 0.10) between treatments.

¹T0, T1, T2 and T4 represents supplementation of polymethacrylate (Eudragit L-100) nanocapsules loaded with curcumin (N-CU) at 0, 1, 2 and 4 mg/kg concentrate, respectively.

²During the adaptation period, silage consumption was not measured.