. 2023 Jun 27;7(1):txad066. doi: 10.1093/tas/txad066

Table 4.

Growth performance of growing–finishing pigs fed the cDDGS diets with different SID BCAA:Lys ratio adjusted by SBM inclusion

Item	Treatment^†					SEM^‡	P-value
Item	PC	NC	Grow	Finish	Grow–Finish	SEM^‡	P-value
Body weight (BW), kg
Initial	28.9	28.7	28.7	28.7	28.7	0.70	0.999
Phase 1^*	48.9	48.5	48.7	49.2	48.7	0.84	0.986
Phase 2	80.2	78.2	79.1	80.6	79.2	0.99	0.496
Phase 3	101.8	100.3	100.3	103.5	100.1	1.02	0.110
Phase 4	110.0^ab	107.9^b	107.3^b	111.4^a	107.3^b	1.20	0.064
Average daily gain (ADG), g/d
Phase 1	951	944	954	976	951	19.6	0.824
Phase 2	1,116^a	1,062^b	1,086^ab	1,122^a	1,091^ab	14.4	0.038
Phase 3	1,032^ab	1,052^ab	1,010^b	1,090^a	991^b	21.6	0.023
Phase 4	1,371	1,256	1,157	1,328	1,208	61.4	0.111
Overall	1,067^ab	1,042^b	1,034^b	1,089^a	1,034^b	13.6	0.023
Average daily feed intake (ADFI), g/d
Phase 1	1,843	1,781	1,782	1,816	1,795	33.0	0.636
Phase 2	2,463	2,503	2,443	2,511	2,511	59.5	0.891
Phase 3	3,072^a	3,106^a	3,016^a	3,132^a	2,860^b	49.6	0.003
Phase 4	3,196	3,196	3,236	3,334	3,331	58.1	0.243
Overall	2,527	2,533	2,491	2,565	2,485	34.2	0.459
Gain to feed ratio (G:F)
Phase 1	0.516	0.530	0.536	0.537	0.531	0.0064	0.164
Phase 2	0.458	0.425	0.446	0.449	0.434	0.0117	0.314
Phase 3	0.336	0.339	0.335	0.349	0.347	0.0060	0.322
Phase 4	0.430^a	0.392^ab	0.358^b	0.399^ab	0.363^b	0.0186	0.060
Overall	0.423	0.411	0.416	0.425	0.416	0.0051	0.325

^abc Within a row means without a common superscript differ (P < 0.05).

^*Phase 1: 0 to 3 wk, phase 2: 3 to 7 wk, phase 3: 7 to 10 wk, and phase 4: 10 to 11 wk.

^†Positive control (PC): a corn–SBM based diet with SID BCAA:Lys of PIC (2020) for the overall experimental period; negative control (NC): a cDDGS diet with SID BCAA:Lys of PIC (2020) for the overall experimental period; Grow: a cDDGS diet with SID BCAA:Lys targeted for the growing phase for overall experimental period; Finish: a cDDGS diet with SID BCAA:Lys targeted for the finishing phase for overall experimental period; Grow–Finish: a cDDGS diet with SID BCAA:Lys targeted for the growing phase for phases 1 and 2 and SID BCAA:Lys targeted for the finishing phase for phases 3 and 4.

^‡Standard error of the means.