Table 3. The effect of the dietary E. faecium supplementation on the nutrient digestibility in the weanling pigs.
Items (%) | CON | TRT1 | TRT2 | TRT3 | TRT4 | SEM1 | P-value | |
linear | quadratic | |||||||
Dry matter | 81.08 | 82.34 | 82.55 | 83.90 | 84.10 | 0.71 | 0.019 | 0.835 |
Nitrogen | 79.64 | 80.91 | 81.76 | 82.60 | 83.78 | 0.87 | 0.001 | 0.716 |
Gross energy | 81.10 | 81.48 | 83.05 | 80.06 | 81.78 | 0.73 | 0.978 | 0.504 |
1Standard error of means – significant results were defined as less than P < 0.05 and statistically highly significant as P < 0.001
CON = basal diet; TRT1 = basal diet + 2.5 × 105 cfu/g E. faecium; TRT2 = basal diet + 1.29 × 106 cfu/g; TRT3 = basal diet + 1.15 × 107 cfu/g; TRT4 = basal diet + 1.1 × 108 cfu/g