The oral administration of thermophile-fermented compost extract and its influence on stillbirths and growth rate of pre-weaning piglets
2012
Miyamoto, Hirokuni | Kodama, Hiroaki | Udagawa, Motoaki | Mori, Kenichi | Matsumoto, Jiro | Oosaki, Hatsumi | Oosaki, Tatsuo | Ishizeki, Masayuki | Ishizeki, Daisuke | Tanaka, Ryusuke | Matsushita, Teruo | Kurihara, Yuriko | Miyamoto, Hisashi
Food produced via fermentation with mesophilic bacteria has been used to confer health benefits. In contrast, mammalian physiological responses to the intake of thermophile-fermented products have not been thoroughly investigated. We examined the effects of administering a compost extract consisting of fermented marine animals with thermophiles, including Bacillaceae, to pregnant sows and piglets. Retrospective studies were performed on two different swine farms (n=330–1050 sows). The rate of stillbirth was markedly lower in all parities of the compost extract-fed group compared to those of the control group (p≦0.001). Additionally, the birth to weaning period of newborns was significantly shorter (p<0.0001), while the ratio of weanlings per liveborn piglets was increased by more than 6.5% in the compost extract-fed group. Thus thermophiles and their products in the compost extract might promote growth and reduce stillbirths of piglets during the birth to weaning period.
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