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Growth Effect of Various Antibiotics on Baby Pigs Fed Synthetic Rations¹

University of Illinois⁴

Abstract

Both aureomycin and chloromycetin stimulated the feed consumption and rate of gain of baby pigs fed an alpha-protein "synthetic milk" diet. Chloromycetin reduced the number of coliform bacteria present in the feces during the first nine days of the experiment. This was only a temporary reduction, as by the sixteenth day no difference was apparent. Aureomycin had no effect on the fecal bacteria studied in these tests.

¹ A preliminary report of this work was made before the American Institute of Nutrition meeting in Cleveland, May, 1951. Federation Proceedings, 10:397, 1951.

² Swine Division.

³ Chloromycetin was supplied by the Parke Davis Company, Detroit, Michigan, through the courtesy of Dr. Orson D. Bird.

We would like to acknowledge the provision made by Lederle Laboratories Division, American Cyanamid Corporation, Pearl River, New York, for a grant-in-aid for partial support of our baby pig research.

Inositol was supplied by the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company, Decatur, Illinois. Methionine was supplied by Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan, through the courtesy of Dr. Julius Johnson.

⁴ Division of Animal Nutrition, Urbana.