Table 5.

Effects of dietary Forsythia suspensa extract supplementation to lactating sows and nursery pigs on post-weaning performance

Sow diet	Control		FSE1		SEM	P-value
Nursery diet	Control	FSE	Control	FSE		Sow diet	Nursery diet	Sow diet × Nursery diet
BW, kg
Day 1	6.96	6.98	6.99	6.98	0.32	0.96	1.00	0.96
Day 14	9.67	10.13	10.09	10.04	0.30	0.57	0.50	0.42
Day 28	14.39	15.19	15.52	15.29	0.45	0.18	0.53	0.26
Day 1 to 14
ADG, g	195	211	222	217	9.96	0.10	0.58	0.32
ADFI, g	324	331	348	335	16.5	0.40	0.83	0.56
Feed efficiency	0.61	0.64	0.64	0.65	0.02	0.31	0.41	0.66
Diarrhea score	3.40	3.21	3.12	3.10	0.05	<0.01	0.03	0.09
Diarrhea rate	11.7	4.4	2.9	1.9	2.09	<0.01	0.06	0.14
Day 15 to 28
ADG, g	363	389	418	404	19.5	0.09	0.75	0.31
ADFI, g	650	672	702	662	23.9	0.38	0.70	0.20
Feed efficiency	0.56	0.58	0.60	0.61	0.03	0.14	0.44	0.91
Diarrhea score	3.28	3.10	3.08	3.03	0.03	< 0.01	< 0.01	0.06
Diarrhea rate	5.6	3.2	2.7	1.5	1.16	0.06	0.14	0.61
Day 1 to 28
ADG, g	276	297	316	307	10.5	0.03	0.58	0.17
ADFI, g	487	502	525	499	17.0	0.31	0.71	0.24
Feed efficiency	0.57	0.59	0.60	0.62	0.01	0.05	0.17	0.67
Diarrhea score	3.33a	3.15b	3.10b	3.06b	0.03	<0.01	<0.01	0.03
Diarrhea rate	8.7	3.8	2.8	1.7	1.58	0.02	0.07	0.24

¹FSE, Forsythia suspensa extract.

^a,bDifferent superscripts within a row mean significant difference (P < 0.05).