Effect of the Dietary Supplement Viusid vet on the Productive Behavior of Newly Weaned Pigs

Introduction:

Weaning is an important period in the life of the pigs, because they require adapting quickly to the environmental and nutritional changes that exist in the pigpen. The objective of this assay was to assess the effect of three doses of the dietary supplement VIUSID vet, on the productive behavior of pigs after the weaning.

Materials and Methods:

For this work, four groups of 30 newly weaned pigs were used (females). The animals were weaned at around of 26 days of age. The assay lasted 60 days.

The pigs of the groups I, II and III were supplemented with VIUSID vet, in dose of 1, 1.5 and 2 grams per kg of concentrated food, respectively. The group IV was used as control.

The main variables studied were: Initial weight, Final weight, Increment of weight, Average daily gain, Alimentary efficiency, Incidence of diarrheas (%) and Viability (%).

The variables were processed statistically according to the test T for unequal variances, except the incidence of diarrheas and the viability, which were processed by the proportion hypothesis test.

VIUSID vet contains: Malic acid, Glucosamine, Arginine, Glycine, Ascorbic Acid, Folic Acid, Monoammonium Glycyrrhizinate (extracted from the root of Glycyrrhiza glabra), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Cyanocobalamin, Calcium Pantothenate and Zinc Sulfate. The product undergoes a biocatalytic process of molecular activation to improve their biological activity and the biochemical reactivity of all its molecules.

Results:

The increment of weight and the alimentary efficiency, were higher (p < 0.05), in the pigs supplemented with VIUSID vet. The groups tried with 1 and 1.5 grams had increments of 6 and 11% for the average daily gain, and of 6 and 12% for the alimentary efficiency, compared with the control group. The treatment with 2 grams of VIUSID vet, improved the gain weight in 5.3%. The incidence of diarrhea was of 2.5, 7.5 and 2.5% in the pigs of the groups I, II and III, respectively, vs. 15% in the control group. The viability did not differ among the groups.

Conclusion:

The supply of 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 grams of VIUSID vet. per kg of concentrated food, significantly improves the gain weight and the alimentary efficiency of the weaned pigs; besides, reduces the incidence of diarrheas.

Disclosure of Interest: None Declared.

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