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Effects of Dietary Enterococcus faecium SF68 on Growth Performance, Nutrient Digestibility, Blood Characteristics and Faecal Noxious Gas Content in Finishing Pigs
- Source :
- Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences. 19:406-411
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Asian Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies, 2006.
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Abstract
- The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of feeding probiotic (Enterococcus faecium SF68, EF) on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, blood characteristics and faecal noxious gas content in finishing pigs. A total of eighty ((Landrace×Yorkshire)×Duroc) pigs with an initial BW of 50.47±2.13 kg were used in this 8-week experiment. Pigs were allotted to four treatments (4 replicates per treatment and 5 pigs per pen) according to a randomized complete block design. Dietary treatments were: 1) CON (control; basal diet), 2) CTC (control diet+0.1% antibiotic, chlortetracycline), 3) EF1 (control diet+0.1% probiotic, EF) and 4) EF2 (control diet+0.2% probiotic, EF). During weeks 0-4, ADG was not affected by the addition of antibiotic or EF (p>0.05). In weeks 4-8, ADG tended to increase in CTC and EF treatments compared to CON treatment (p 0.05). Digestibilities of DM and N were higher in EF supplemented treatments than in CON and CTC treatments (p 0.05). Supplementation of EF in the diet decreased faecal ammonia nitrogen (NH3-N) and hydrogen sulphide (H2S) concentrations (p
- Subjects :
- Chlortetracycline
chemistry.chemical_classification
Nutrient digestibility
biology
medicine.drug_class
Antibiotics
Randomized block design
Fatty acid
biology.organism_classification
Microbiology
law.invention
Butyric acid
Probiotic
chemistry.chemical_compound
Animal science
chemistry
law
medicine
Animal Science and Zoology
Food Science
medicine.drug
Enterococcus faecium
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19765517 and 10112367
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........d6951e257edaf79f4cf18200a16c59c3