Dietary 5-hydroxytryptophan supplementation improves growth performance and intestinal health of weaned piglets

Table 3 Effect of dietary 5-HTP supplementation on growth performance of weaned piglets

Items	Treatments			SEM	P value
Items	CON	250 mg/kg	500 mg/kg	SEM	P value
Initial BW (kg)	8.30	8.30	8.25	0.243	0.996
Final BW (kg)	21.76	24.95	23.02	0.559	0.062
Average daily gain (g)	384.91^b	475.67^a	422.16^ab	14.544	0.032
Average daily intake (g/ day)	777.23	817.85	834.43	14.160	0.231
Feed conversion ratio	2.05^a	1.74^b	1.98^ab	0.052	0.034
Diarrhea rate (%)	22.03^a	10.71^b	16.67^ab	1.504	0.002

^abc Means within a row without a common letter differ (P < 0.05), the same as below. Feed conversion ratio = average daily feed intake/average daily gain

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