THE EFFECT OF DIETARY DOXYCYCLINE ON THE HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE OF PIGS IN A HERD WITH A HIGH PREVALENCE OF PORCINE PROLIFERATIVE ENTEROPATHY (PPE) - The Pig Journal by the Pig Veterinary Society

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Pig Journal Volume: 57
Publication date: May 2006

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THE EFFECT OF DIETARY DOXYCYCLINE ON THE HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE OF PIGS IN A HERD WITH A HIGH PREVALENCE OF PORCINE PROLIFERATIVE ENTEROPATHY (PPE)
P.K.N. Almond and G. Bilkei

Abstract
The objective of this study was to determine the effect of dietary doxycycline on the prevention and treatment of Porcine Proliferative Enteropathy (PPE). The study was conducted on 4,840 growing pigs. The pigs were assigned to either doxycycline feed medication (Group 1: n=2441), or were not treated (Group 2, n=2399). Diarrhoea, clinical signs typical for PPE, and mortality were lower (p<0.001) and weight gain was higher (p<0.001) in doxycycline treated pigs.

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