Effects of Tetrabasic Zinc Chloride as Alternative to High Doses of Zinc Oxide on Growth Performance, Nutrient Digestibility, Intestinal Morphology, Immune Function, and Gut Microbiota in Weaned Piglets.

Shuyu Peng, Jingzi Fang, Nan Zhang, Yi Chen, Yongxi Ma, Chunlin Wang

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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The Effect of Pellet Diameter on the Growth Performance, Nutrient Digestibility, and Intestinal Health of Piglets During the Creep Feeding Stage.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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Shuyu PengState Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.

Jingzi FangState Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.

Nan ZhangState Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.

Yi ChenState Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.

Yongxi MaState Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7892-5618

Chunlin WangState Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4807-1644

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China 2021YFD1300031

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the effects of dietary supplementation with TBZC on the growth performance, diarrhea incidence, antioxidant ability, immune function, and intestinal health of weaned piglets. A total of 120 weaned piglets were randomly allocated to one of three dietary treatments with six replicate pens and eight piglets per pen: CON-a basal diet; ZnO-a basal diet with 1500 mg Zn/kg from ZnO; and TBZC-a basal diet with 680 mg Zn/kg from TBZC. Following a 42-day period of consuming the zinc-enriched diet, the piglets were switched to a basal diet for the remaining 28 days of the trial. The dietary TBZC increased the average daily feed intake of weaned piglets (ADFI) from days 1 to 14 and the average daily growth (ADG) from days 43 to 70 compared with the ZnO group (

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antioxidant capacitygut microbiotaintestinal morphologytetrabasic zinc chlorideweaned piglets

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PMID41227403

DOI10.3390/ani15213071

PMCPMC12608981

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