Effects of oil quality and antioxidant supplementation on sow performance, milk composition and oxidative status in serum and placenta

Table 3 Effects of oxidized oil with or without antioxidant (AOX) on sow performance

	Oil quality		AOX		SEM	P value
	FO	OO	FO + AOX	OO + AOX	SEM	AOX	Oil	AOX × Oil
Total litter size	12.72	12.63	12.69	12.83	0.42	0.84	0.94	0.78
Live litter size	11.00	10.95	10.38	10.91	0.39	0.34	0.51	0.42
Mommified	0.67	0.52	0.63	0.46	0.22	0.78	0.5	0.95
Dead	1.06	1.16	1.69	1.46	0.23	0.12	0.78	0.49
Litter weight	15.43	15.01	14.97	15.31	0.50	0.93	0.95	0.45
Placental efficiency	4.72	4.84	4.85	4.81	0.28	0.87	0.91	0.80
Average Birth weight	1.42	1.41	1.47	1.43	0.06	0.64	0.72	0.90
Initial pigs, No.	10.56	10.42	10.5	10.58	0.11	0.59	0.84	0.36
Initial litter weight, kg	15.35	14.52	15.53	15.39	0.50	0.29	0.34	0.49
Initial body weight, kg	1.46	1.39	1.47	1.45	0.05	0.40	0.33	0.68
Weaning pigs, No.	9.33	9.6	9.56	9.57	0.25	0.70	0.58	0.62
Litter weight at weaning, kg	53.62	51.86	54.55	53.79	2.30	0.54	0.59	0.34
Weaning body weight, kg	5.74	5.39	5.68	5.62	0.15	0.60	0.21	0.83
Body weight gain, kg	4.28	3.94	4.29	4.15	0.15	0.46	0.13	0.51
Daily feed intake of sows, kg	4.89	4.48	4.86	4.72	0.13	0.40	0.04	0.30
Backfat thickness at d 85	17.4	18.2	17.8	18.8	0.89	0.69	0.47	0.20
Backfat thickness at farrowing	18.6	19.8	19.1	19.8	0.70	0.64	0.70	0.15
Backfat thickness at d 21	16.3	16.9	16.4	16.8	0.85	0.53	1.00	0.35
Backfat lost	2.3	3.3	2.7	3.0	0.60	0.92	0.28	0.54

Treatments: FO means fresh oil; OO means oxidized oil; FO + AOX means fresh oil plus AOX; OO + AOX means oxidized oil plus AOX. n = 20

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