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Veterinary Medicine

Swine

2005

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Effect Of Herbal Plant Quillaja Saponaria Supplementation In Feed On Growth Rate, Fcr, Fecal Ammonia And Blood Urea Nitrogen Of Weanling Pigs, Supol Luengyosluechakul, Athipoo Nuntaprasert, Supot Wattanaphansak, Siam Sengtrakul, Sirirak Sirichaiya, Suthida Leelatanont Jun 2005

Effect Of Herbal Plant Quillaja Saponaria Supplementation In Feed On Growth Rate, Fcr, Fecal Ammonia And Blood Urea Nitrogen Of Weanling Pigs, Supol Luengyosluechakul, Athipoo Nuntaprasert, Supot Wattanaphansak, Siam Sengtrakul, Sirirak Sirichaiya, Suthida Leelatanont

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

A hundred twenty weaned crossbred pigs of Duroc Jersey and Landrace-Largewhite, weighing an average of 6.55 ± 0.62 kg were divided into three groups. The forty animals of each group were kept separately in four battery cages; each cage consisted of five males and five females. Group allotment was conducted by randomized complete block design (RCBD). Animals of the control group were fed basal diet. Animals of the second and the third group were fed supplemental extract of Quillaja saponaria with basal diet in doses of 125 ppm and 250 ppm respectively for a period of 7 weeks. The parameters …