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. 2022 Jun 24;36(1):119–131. doi: 10.5713/ab.22.0072

Table 3.

Effect of an essential oil blend on growth performance and diarrhea occurrence in weaning piglets

Item Treatments1) SEM p-value
NC PC EO100 EO200 EO400
Pre-starter I (14 days of experimentation)
 IBW (kg) 7.06 7.10 7.10 7.10 7.10 - -
 FBW (kg) 9.48 9.74 9.58 9.33 9.85 0.096 0.287
 ADG (g) 169 185 174 159 192 0.005 0.361
 ADFI (g) 259 281 264 246 275 0.006 0.359
 G:F 0.65 0.66 0.66 0.65 0.70 0.012 0.638
 DO (%)2) 75.19b 77.52ab 88.37a 79.84ab 73.64b - 0.013
Pre-starter II (25 days of experimentation)
 FBW (kg) 13.83 14.51 14.20 13.68 14.52 0.160 0.664
 ADG (g) 394 434 420 398 427 0.008 0.659
 ADFI (g) 563 605 586 565 587 0.010 0.866
 G:F 0.70 0.72 0.72 0.70 0.73 0.006 0.448
 DO (%)2) 52.53a 42.42ab 55.56a 52.53a 37.37b - 0.041
Starter I (33 days of experimentation)
 FBW (kg) 18.73 19.72 18.98 18.45 19.36 0.187 0.539
 ADG (g) 642 661 631 616 634 0.011 0.602
 ADFI (g) 884 937 901 868 884 0.014 0.502
 G:F 0.73 0.70 0.70 0.71 0.72 0.006 0.548
 DO (%)2) 36.23 26.09 28.99 31.88 40.58 - 0.351
Starter II (42 days of experimentation)
 FBW (kg) 23.54 24.14 23.62 23.43 24.41 0.231 0.129
 ADG (g) 627 622 610 654 664 0.009 0.081
 ADFI (g) 1,004 1,026 1,033 1,020 1,028 0.014 0.601
 G:F 0.63AB 0.61AB 0.59B 0.64A 0.65A 0.007 0.047
 DO (%)2) 60.87ab 42.03abc 63.77a 39.13bc 31.88c - <0.001
Total period (42 days of experimentation)
 FBW (kg) 23.54 24.14 23.62 23.43 24.41 0.230 0.578
 ADG (g) 405 419 406 402 426 0.005 0.575
 ADFI (g) 599 625 614 587 614 0.008 0.676
 G:F 0.68 0.67 0.66 0.68 0.70 0.004 0.124
 DO (%)2) 59.02ab 51.64bc 63.66a 55.74abc 49.73c - <0.001

SEM, standard error of the mean; IBW, initial body weight; FBW, final body weight; ADG, average daily gain; ADFI, average daily feed intake; G:F, gain to feed ratio; DO, diarrhea occurrence.

1)

NC, negative control: basal diet; PC, positive control: NC+125 mg performance-enhancing antibiotic (enramycin 8%)/kg diet; EO100, NC+100 mg essential oil blend/kg diet; EO200, NC+200 mg essential oil blend/kg diet; EO400, NC+400 mg essential oil blend/kg diet.

2)

DO (%) = dividing the sum of DO by the total number of observations in each treatment and then multiplying by 100%.

A,B

Averages with different uppercase superscripts in the same row differ significantly by the Student-Newman-Keuls test (p<0.05).

a–c

Averages with different lowercase superscripts in the same row differ significantly by the Tukey-Kramer test (p<0.05).