Table 4.

Effect of sows’ intake of micelle silymarin from the 109th prenatal day to the 21st postnatal day on growth performance of suckling piglets¹

Items	Micelle silymarin (% of diet)				CON vs. Micelle Silymarin	P-value
	0	0.05	0.1	0.2		Linear	Quadratic
Litter size at weaning, n	11.11 ± 0.70	10.67 ± 0.33	11.22 ± 0.60	11.67 ± 0.41	0.904	0.311	0.580
Mortality rate during lactation, %	4.97 ± 1.61	3.87 ± 1.53	4.52 ± 1.93	0.79 ± 0.70	0.286	0.063	0.501
Litter weight at weaning, kg	65.27 ± 3.05	68.19 ± 2.77	71.22 ± 3.14	77.38 ± 2.28	0.040	0.003	0.970
Litter weight gain, kg	48.83 ± 2.21	51.15 ± 2.31	54.31 ± 2.70	59.42 ± 1.92	0.028	0.002	0.996
Individual piglet weight, kg	6.02 ± 0.10	6.32 ± 0.07	6.37 ± 0.10	6.66 ± 0.15	0.002	<0.001	0.538
ADG of piglet, g	214.56 ± 4.59	225.22 ± 4.38	231.33 ± 5.40	243.44 ± 6.44	0.004	<0.001	0.623

¹Values are presented as means ± SE, n = 10.