Calcium anacardate and citric acid as growth promoters for weaned piglets

Autor: Rafael Carlos Nepomuceno, Leonardo Augusto Fonseca Pascoal, Ricardo Romão Guerra, I.B. Mendonça, Pedro Henrique Watanabe, Ednardo Rodrigues Freitas, Jonathan Mádson dos Santos Almeida, A.C.S. Ferreira, M. T. S. Trevisan, I.N.G. Silva, J.L. Ferreira, B.D. Nogueira
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Livestock Science. 238:104084
ISSN: 1871-1413
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2020.104084
Popis: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of dietary supplementation of Ca anacardate and citric acid for weaned piglets on growth performance, diarrhea incidence, pH of gastrointestinal contents, blood profile, intestinal morphometry, and immunohistochemistry in the periods I (d 0 to 12), II (d 12 to 22), III (d 22 to 42), and total (d 0 to 42). A total of 96 barrows weaned at 21 d of age (5.96 ±0.81 kg) were allocated to 4 treatments with 8 replicates pens and 3 piglets per pen in a randomized block design. The experimental treatments were: positive control, diet with addition of antibiotic growth promoter (AGP, 0.05% zinc bacitracin); negative control, diet without addition of AGP; negative control diet with addition of 1% citric acid and 0.6% Ca anacardate; and negative control diet with addition of 1% citric acid and 1% Ca anacardate. Piglets fed the diets containing AGP or Ca anacardate and citric acid had decreased values of feed:gain during the period III and total period (P
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