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. 2013 Aug 3;4(1):29. doi: 10.1186/2049-1891-4-29

Table 4.

Pig performance from week 3 to 6 post-weaning

Variables NC-CD1 NC-GLN NC-AG CFCD-CD CFCD-GLN CFCD-AG CFGLN-GLN CFAG-AG SEM P value
No. pens
 6
 6
 6
 6
 6
 6
 6
 6
 -
 -
Initial wt, kg
 10.45
 10.32
 10.72
 9.44
 10.18
 10.10
 10.78
 10.43
 0.43
 0.457
Final wt, kg
 22.32
 21.97
 22.74
 22.21
 22.86
 22.50
 21.71
 22.76
 0.41
 0.437
ADG, kg/pig
 0.52
 0.51
 0.55
 0.50
 0.54
 0.53
 0.50
 0.54
 0.02
 0.444
Intake, kg/pig2
 0.77b
 0.74b
 0.86a
 0.77b
 0.79b
 0.79b
 0.70c
 0.80b
 0.03
 0.022
Feed/gain2
 1.39
 1.48
 1.65
 1.49
 1.64
 1.84
 1.66
 1.50
 0.12
 0.271
Mortality,%
 0.01
 0.00
 0.35
 0.13
 0.16
 0.01
 0.19
 0.01
 0.13
 0.434
Removed,% 1.01 1.5 1.69 1.62 0.99 1.15 1.69 1.17 0.32 0.497

1NC-CD No Creep Control Diet, NC-GLN No Creep Glutamine, NC-AG No Creep AminoGut, CFCD-CD Creep Fed Control Diet-Control Diet, CFCD-GLN Creep Fed Control Diet-Glutamine, CFCD-AG Creep Fed Control Diet-AminoGut, CFGLN-GLN Creep Fed Glutamine-Glutamine, CFAG-AG Creep Fed AminoGut-AminoGut. See Figure 1.

2For the calculation of feed intake and feed/gain, the number of pens was reduced from 6 to 3 pens because two pens shared a common feeder.

abcLeast square means within a row lacking a common superscript are different (P < 0.05).