Abstract
ABSTRACT An Experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of Natufermen ® ( Aspergillus oryzae ) supplementationon the performance, ammonia gas production, microbial population in manure and serum IgG in pigs. Fortyeight cross bred(YLD) weanling pigs(35d old) were assigned to 4 treatments; Control(C), C + Natufermen 0.1%, C+ Natufermen 0.2 % C+ natufermen 0.3 % for 6 week feeding trial. Each treatment had 4 replications of 3pigs each. Natufermen ® supplemented treatments tended to increase ADG and ADFI, but there were no sig-nificant differences among treatments. Supplementation of Natufermen ® at the level of 0.2% improvedADFI/ADG(P<0.05). Ammonia gas production from manure was not significantly affected by treatments. AllNatufermen ® treatments increased in DM, crude ash and phosphorus digestibility(P <0.05). Serum IgG de-creased as supplemention level of Natufermen ® increased(P <0.05). Supplemtation of Natufermen ® at 0.1% and0.2% increased fecal Lactobacilli population at 3 wks after feeding treated diets(P < 0.05).It is concluded that supplementation of
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