Table 4.

Effects creep feed form and composition on feed disappearance and the percentage of pigs consuming creep feed¹

	Treatment1
Item	COM	LMR	PMR	SEM2	P-value
No.3	14	14	14
Average daily creep feed disappearance, g/pig4
Day 5 to 9	4.3b	18.8a	4.3b	0.8	<0.001
Day 10 to 13	8.4b	28.2a	6.7b	1.6	<0.001
Day 14 to 15	11.7b	36.1a	9.2c	2.3	<0.001
Day 16 to 17	12.4b	48.8a	14.8b	2.9	<0.001
Day 18 to 21	16.4b	55.7a	16.6b	1.7	<0.001
Blue-positive feces, %5
Day 9	10.9b	63.8a	16.1b	3.8	<0.001
Day 13	51.5c	86.9a	65.4b	3.9	<0.001
Day 15	64.9b	86.3a	73.2b	3.6	<0.001
Day 17	70.1b	91.3a	75.0b	3.5	<0.001
Day 21	77.3b	96.9a	85.3b	3.3	<0.001

¹Creep feed treatments: commercial creep feed from Floradale Feed Mill (Floradale, ON, Canada; micropellets; COM), liquid milk replacer (LMR), and pelleted milk replacer (micropellets; PMR) from Grober Nutrition (Cambridge, ON, Canada), or no creep feed offered (NO). Creep feed treatments were implemented at 5.4 ± 0.3 days of age and until weaning (21.3 ± 2.1 days of age).

²Maximum value for the standard error of the means.

³Number of litters evaluated.

⁴Average daily creep feed disappearance per pig (DM-basis).

⁵Brilliant blue dye was included with the creep diets (1%, as-fed) and presence in feces was determined via visual inspection. Percent of pigs with blue feces within a litter.

^a–cWithin a row, means without a common superscript differ, P < 0.05.