Effect of Dietary sugar beet pulp supplementation on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, fecal Microflora, blood profiles and Diarrhea incidence in weaning pigs

Table 5 Effects of sugar beet pulp levels supplementation on fecal microflora in weaning pigs^a

Criteria	Treatment^b					SEM^c	P-value^d
Criteria	PC	SBP3	SBP6	SBP9	SBP12	SEM^c	Lin.	Quad.
E. coli, cfu/ml
Initial	5.84	5.84	5.84	5.84	5.84	0.109	-	-
2 week	3.87	4.44	4.22	4.21	4.87	0.131	0.30	0.12
5 week	4.41	4.00	4.17	5.50	4.33	0.214	0.29	0.17
Lactobacillus, cfu/ml
Initial	6.63	6.63	6.63	6.63	6.63	0.053	-	-
2 week	6.08	6.53	6.36	7.17	6.64	0.130	0.04	0.32
5 week	7.81	8.03	7.96	8.04	8.19	0.047	0.02	0.97

^a Least squares means for 4 pigs per treatment
^b PC: corn-SBM based diet + ZnO, SBP3: basal diet + SBP 3%, SBP6: basal diet + SBP 6%, SBP9: basal diet + SBP 9%, SBP12: basal diet + SBP 12%
^c Standard error of means
^d Probability values for the effects of SBP3, SBP6, SBP9, SBP12

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