Table 2. Effects of the plane of nutrition on growth of finishing pigs.

Variable	Low plane1)		High plane2)		SEM	P-value
	B3)	G3)	B3)	G3)		N4)	S4)	N×S
Body wt (kg)
Day 0	48.6	45.6	48.7	49.0	1.7	0.31	0.44	0.34
Day 38	82.5	80.6	82.9	82.6	1.4	0.37	0.45	0.54
Day 69	106.2	104.4	111.1	108.5	1.9	0.02	0.24	0.84
Day 84/91	120.5	115.0	125.0	122.9	2.3	0.01	0.11	0.49
ADG (g)
Day 0-38	892	923	899	885	36	0.67	0.81	0.53
Day 38-69	807	785	912	834	32	0.02	0.12	0.39
Day 69-84/91	649	482	956	957	67	<0.01	0.22	0.21
Overall	797	771	915	879	27	<0.01	0.26	0.86

¹⁾Fed the low-plane finisher (Table 1) throughout the experiment (d 0-91).

²⁾Fed the grower and high-plane finisher during d 0-38 and 38-84, respectively.

³⁾B, barrow; G, gilt. Data are means of 12 animals.

⁴⁾N, plane of nutrition; S, sex.