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

Table 5.

Carcass traits 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
No. of head, n	216	223	223	221	223
Group average BW, kg^***	119.4^ab	118.3^ab	114.0^c	121.6^a	115.7^b	1.37	0.001
Hot carcass weight, kg	88.9	89.0	88.0	88.6	88.2	0.66	0.770
Carcass yield, %	74.7^bc	75.4^ab	77.6^a	73.0^c	76.6^ab	0.85	0.002
Iodine value^†	67.04^c	77.43^b	78.19^b	80.61^a	77.96^b	0.433	<0.001

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

^*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 the overall experimental period; Finish: a cDDGS diet with SID BCAA:Lys targeted for the finishing phase for the 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.

^***Pig group in each pen was weighed the day before shipment and, thus, 2 d before harvest.

^†Iodine values were investigated from the 36 carcasses for second and third loadings.