1. Effects of tea tree oil supplementation on growth performance, antioxidant capacity, immune status and microbial community in weaned pigs
- Author
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Shuai Zhang, Gang Zhang, Jianjun Zang, Wenxuan Dong, Jinbiao Zhao, Defa Li, Shou-Qing Ni, and Xiaoming Song
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Male ,0301 basic medicine ,medicine.drug_class ,Sus scrofa ,Antibiotics ,Biology ,Random Allocation ,03 medical and health sciences ,Immune system ,Tea Tree Oil ,medicine ,Animals ,Food science ,Immune status ,030109 nutrition & dietetics ,General Veterinary ,0402 animal and dairy science ,Tea tree oil ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,General Medicine ,Animal Feed ,040201 dairy & animal science ,humanities ,Diet ,Gastrointestinal Microbiome ,Antioxidant capacity ,Microbial population biology ,Dietary Supplements ,Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena ,Female ,Animal Science and Zoology ,medicine.drug - Abstract
The objective of this study was to determine whether dietary tea tree oil (TTO) supplementation could effectively replace the antibiotics through modulating the antioxidant capacity and intestinal microbiota profile, and then decreasing the diarrhoea incidence and improving the growth performance of weaned pigs. A total of 216 weaned pigs with initial body weights (BW) of 9.19 ± 1.86 kg were randomly allocated to three dietary treatments in a completely randomised design. The dietary treatments included a corn-soybean meal basal diet (CON) without any antibiotics, and two experimental diets formulated by adding 75 mg/kg aureomycin (AGP) or 100 mg/kg TTO into the basal diet, respectively. Pigs fed the TTO diet showed greater gain to feed ratio (
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- 2021