Table 1.
Ingredient composition of fermented Chinese medicine feed additive.
Table 2.
Composition and nutrient levels of the different diet (air-dry basis).
Fig 1.
Variation of active components in FCM after fermentation of probiotics.
(A) Venn diagram of total variation features; (B) Volcano plot of significantly changed active components; (C) Barplot of totally consumed and appeared active components.
Fig 2.
Variations of (A) viable bacteria counts and (B) pH of FCM during 72-h fermentation. Different lowercase letters represent significant differences.
Table 3.
Variation of organic acids in feed after supplementation of FCM.
Table 4.
Effects of additive FCM in basal diet on growth performance of weaned piglet (n = 10).
Fig 3.
Variations of gut microbiota in (A) Venn diagram of features; (B) principal component analysis; (C) LEfSe analysis of gut microbiota in different feeding group; BD0: Basal diet day-0; BDF0: Basal diet + FCM day-0; BD14: Basal diet day-14; BDF14: Basal diet + FCM day-14.
Table 5.
Effects of additive FCM in basal diet on alpha-diversity index of gut microbiota.