Bamboo vinegar (BV) is a brown-red transparent
liquid produced during pyrolysis of bamboo charcoal and contains more than 200 types of chemical
components, in which acetic acid is the main component
(Mu et al., 2004). BV and biomass slurry
exhibits good fungicidal and termiticidal properties,
due to their phenolic compound and acetic acid
contents (Nakayama et al., 2001; Kartal et al.,
2004). The fungicidal property of wood vinegars
was in order of coconut shell wood vinegar > bamboo
wood vinegar > Eucalyptus wood vinegar according
to their phenolic compound contents (Baimark &
Niamsa, 2009). Dietary BV supplementation at levels
of 0.1% or 0.2% in finishing pigs increased growth
performance and apparent total tract digestibility,
along with its beneficial effects on the intestinal
microbial population, meat quality and fecal noxious gas concentrations