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

Table 9.

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

Item Treatment* SEM** P-value
PC NC Grow Finish Grow–Finish
Feed cost, $ per tonne
 Phase 1 300.9 285.8 286.9 286.8 286.9
 Phase 2 287.5 271.7 272.6 274.4 272.6
 Phase 3 277.3 267.4 268.2 268.9 268.9
 Phase 4 269.3 259.5 260.6 263.3 263.3
Output, $ per pig
 Carcass gain value*** 196.7 196.1 194.1 195.4 196.4 1.58 0.777
Input, $/pig
Total feed cost 68.8 67.3 65.9 68.1 68.0 0.97 0.288
Facility cost†† 8.9 8.8 8.8 8.9 8.9 0.03 0.176
Net income, $ per pig
 IOFC††† 128.0 128.8 128.2 127.4 128.4 1.79 0.986
 IOFFC 119.1 120.0 119.4 118.5 119.5 1.80 0.984

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

xyz Within a row means without a common superscript show tendency to differ (P < 0.10).

*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.

***Average carcass gain value from first pigs loading (11 wk) to last pigs loading (14 wk).

Feed cost x total feed consumption from initial to last loading (14 wk).

††Facility cost at $0.10/hd/d (until the last loading; 14 wk).

†††Income over feed cost = carcass gain value – total feed cost.

Income over feed and facility cost = IOFC – facility cost.