Nutrition

Botanicals for Pigs—Goldenseal

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Abstract

Various botanical products have been suggested to have beneficial effects as a replacement for manmade chemotherapeutic and antibacterial agents. This study evaluated four levels of goldenseal (0.0 to 1.0%) compared with a control diet control diet containing Mecadox for nursery pigs. Although not performing to the level of the Mecadox control, pigs on the 0.25 and 1.00% goldenseal diets generally performed better than ones on the 0.00 and 0.05% goldenseal diets and were often not statistically different from the Mecadox control pigs. Increasing levels of goldenseal did not influence the muscle characteristics evaluated.

Keywords: ASL R1558

How to Cite:

Holden, P. J., McKean, J. & Franzenburg, E., (1999) “Botanicals for Pigs—Goldenseal”, Iowa State University Animal Industry Report 1(1).