Table 2. Effects of the different amounts of corn in the diet on growth performance.
Items | Treatmenta | SEMb | P-value | |
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LCD | HCD | |||
Initial body weight (kg) | 368.02 | 362.67 | 10.75 | 0.640 |
Final body weight (kg) | 384.28 | 403.75 | 7.12 | 0.041 |
Average daily gain (ADG, kg) | 0.65 | 1.64 | 0.24 | 0.008 |
Average daily feed intake (ADFI, kg, DM) | 5.10 | 6.46 | 0.32 | 0.008 |
Feed conversion ratio (ADFI/ADG) | 9.02 | 4.38 | 1.41 | 0.022 |
aLCD is the low-corn diet; HCD is the high-corn diet.
bStandard error of the mean.