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Efficacy of feed additives in enhancing performance of growing pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

T. L. Veum ,
R. Lauxen  and
J.-T. Yen
T. L. Veum
Affiliation:
110 Animal Science Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 USA†
R. Lauxen
Affiliation:
110 Animal Science Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 USA†
J.-T. Yen
Affiliation:
110 Animal Science Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 USA†
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Abstract

The efficacy of feed additives in enhancing the performance of growing pigs, together with the effect of different protein levels (18 v. 16% from 13 to 18 kg body weight and 16 v. 14% from 18 to 39 kg body-weight), were evaluated in three experiments with 412 pigs. In Experiment 1, from 13 to 39 kg body weight, pigs receiving 55 p.p.m. carbadox (C) produced a greater (P<0·05) average daily live-weight gain than did the non-medicated (NM) pigs and those receiving 275 p.p.m. chlortetracycline-sulphamethazine-penicillin (ASP) with a similar but non-significant (P>0·05) trend n i daily feed intake and gain/feed ratio. The ASP pigs also produced a greater (P<0·05) weight gain than the NM pigs. The higher dietary protein level sequence produced a greater (JP<0·05) weight gain and gain/feed ratio.

In Experiment 2, from 16 to 39 kg body weight, NM control pigs achieved high weight gains, and all the feed additive treatments studied [C+106 p.p.m. of the worming agent pyrantel tartrate (C+P); ASP+8 mg of the worming agent levamisole-HCl per kg body weight fed once on day 7 of the experiment (ASP+L); and 113 p.p.m. tylosin+13 p.p.m. of the worming agent hygromycin B] were similar to the NM controls in daily feed intake, weight gain and gain/feed ratio. However, in Experiment 3, the C+P and ASP+L treatments resulted in a greater (P<0·05) weight gain with a trend toward greater daily feed intake than did the NM control treatment from 17 to 35 kg. The weight gain of the ASP+L pigs was also greater (P<0·05) than that of 165 p.p.m. oxytetracycline and NM pigs from 35 to 57 kg. From 57 to 96 kg all the pigs received the same NM control diet and their weight gains were similar. The gain/feed ratio was similar among the treatments within each of the weight periods in Experiment 3. Pigs slaughtered at the beginning and at various stages during Experiments 2 and 3 were free of internal parasites and migration damage.

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Animal Production , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , February 1980 , pp. 95 - 103
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1980

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