Table 3.

Feed consumption and relative preferences of piglets offered different gelatinization degrees of extruded corn in experiment 1.

Treatment 1	Free Choice a/b	Relative Preference, %				Feed Consumption, g/d
		a	b	SEM	p-Value	a	b	SEM	p-Value
1	NC/ LEC	35.22	64.78	6.38	0.004	223.15	410.19	44.11	0.017
2	NC/ MEC	37.44	62.56	7.75	0.106	208.56	349.31	44.25	0.115
3	NC/ HEC	51.14	48.86	8.38	0.904	312.73	288.19	51.31	0.831
5	LEC/ MEC	66.98	33.02	7.00	0.001	360.42	177.55	38.71	0.003
4	LEC/ HEC	69.31	30.69	11.34	0.085	456.25	163.89	85.46	0.083
6	MEC/ HEC	55.01	44.99	7.35	0.537	299.77	255.32	39.33	0.612
Individual diets		Relative preference, %				Feed consumption, g/d
NC		41.26 ± 8.62 b				248.15 ± 56.40 b
LEC		67.02 ± 2.26 a				408.95 ± 47.93 a
MEC		50.02 ± 15.35 b				275.54 ± 88.41 b
HEC		41.51 ± 9.57 b				235.80 ± 64.41 b

¹ NC, basal diet; LEC, basal diet with 40% extruded corn with a low (41.82%) degree of gelatinization; MEC basal diet with 40% extruded corn with a medium (62.60%) degree of gelatinization; and HEC, basal diet with 40% extruded corn with a high (89.93%) degree of gelatinization. ^a,b values within rows with different superscript differ significantly (p < 0.05).