ArticleTranslational animal science2025
Effects of dietary acidifiers and other low acid-binding capacity formulation strategies on weanling pig growth performance and fecal dry matter.
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Two experiments were conducted to determine effects of dietary acidifiers and low acid-binding capacity at a pH of 4 (ABC-4) formulation strategies on weanling pig performance and fecal dry matter (DM). In Exp. 1, 300 pigs, initially 6.1 kg, were allotted to 1 of 6 dietary treatments fed in two phases with 5 pigs per pen and 10 replications per treatment. Treatment diets were formulated using four acidifiers to target an ABC-4 of 200 and 250 meq/kg in phases 1 and 2, respectively. The acidifiers included fumaric acid (Primary Products Ingredients Americas LLC, Decatur, IL), Activate DA (Novus, St. Charles, MO), KEM-GEST (Kemin, Des Moines, IA), and ACID-AID (Alltech, Nicholasville, KY) added at 0.36, 0.87, 1.01, and 0.84% of the diet, respectively. The fifth treatment did not contain acidifiers which increased the ABC-4 value of the diet by 40 meq/kg. The last treatment was the same formulation as the diet without acidifiers, but with the addition of pharmacological levels of Zn from ZnO. From d 0 to 24 and d 0 to 38, pigs fed low ABC-4 diets had increased (
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