. 2018 Apr 20;96(5):1877–1888. doi: 10.1093/jas/sky098

Table 3.

Effect of diet characteristics on nutrient and energy digestibility and nitrogen balance in growing pigs (DM basis)

Item	Dietary treatment¹
Item	Basal	FFRB	DFRB	CGF	CGM	SEM	P-value
BW, kg	36.2^b	36.1^b	34.7^b	34.9^b	40.8^a	0.9	<0.001
DM intake, kg/d	1.25^c	1.28^c	1.40^a	1.31^bc	1.39^ab	0.02	<0.001
ATTD, %
DM	89.3^a	81.0^bc	74.1^d	78.9^c	84.2^b	1.0	<0.001
GE	88.8^a	81.7^bc	74.9^d	78.7^cd	83.8^b	1.1	<0.001
CP	88.2^a	77.5^c	76.3^c	80.8^bc	84.7^ab	1.8	<0.001
NDF	65.5^a	61.8^a	35.3^b	57.1^a	63.4^a	2.3	<0.001
ADF	62.8^a	42.24^b	19.79^c	50.2^b	64.2^a	3.0	<0.001
Ether extract	50.3^b	66.5^a	48.4^b	47.8^b	42.4^b	2.9	<0.001
OM	90.8^a	83.7^bc	77.3^d	80.4^cd	85.7^b	1.0	<0.001
Urinary energy, % of DE	2.09^b	1.79^b	2.45^ab	2.17^ab;	3.60^a	0.39	0.017
Methane energy, % of DE	0.38^a	0.22^b	0.30^ab	0.57^a	0.52^a	0.08	0.009
ME, % of DE	97.4^a	97.9^a	97.2^ab	97.1^ab	95.7^b	0.4	0.009
Nitrogen balance
Intake, g/d	39.9^cd	37.5^d	42.0^bc	43.5^b	49.1^a	0.7	<0.001
Fecal output, g/d	4.7^b	8.4^a	10.0^a	8.4^a	7.5^a	0.7	<0.001
Urinary output, g/d	9.6^b	5.7^b	8.7^b	9.7^b	17.3^a	1.2	<0.001
Retention, g/d	25.6	23.3	23.4	25.5	24.4	1.5	0.629

^a–dMeans within a row with different superscripts differ (P < 0.05).

¹Basal = corn–soybean meal basal diet; FFRB = full-fat rice bran diet; DFRB = defatted rice bran diet; CGF = corn gluten feed diet; CGM = corn germ meal diet.