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. 2017 Nov;95(11):4880–4892. doi: 10.2527/jas2017.1859

Table 7.

Effects of corn replacement with sorghum in diets fed to weaned pigs on growth performance and apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) of nutrients (Exp. 3)1

Corn:sorghum ratio
Item 60:0 40:20 20:40 0:60 SEM P-value
Performance
    d 1 to 14
        ADG, g 379 362 358 350 13.47 0.83
        ADFI, g 568 551 549 536 18.60 0.70
        G:F 0.668a 0.655b 0.652b 0.651b 0.003 0.04
        Fecal score 2.94a 2.84b 2.83b 2.85b – 0.04
    d 15 to 28
        ADG, g 474 472 460 454 14.29 0.89
        ADFI, g 817 816 802 798 33.76 0.93
        G:F 0.581a 0.579a 0.573ab 0.567b 0.004 0.03
        Fecal score 2.86 2.80 2.79 2.81 – 0.086
    d 1 to 28
        ADG, g 428 415 408 401 11.08 0.84
        ADFI, g 693 684 676 663 23.09 0.84
        G:F 0.618a 0.609ab 0.605b 0.603b 0.004 0.04
        Fecal score 2.90a 2.82b 2.82b 2.83b – 0.02
ATTD of nutrients, %
    d 14
        DM 82.47 80.94 80.92 80.62 0.57 0.066
        OM 85.89 84.52 84.46 84.14 0.50 0.082
        GE 83.46 82.09 82.13 81.78 0.53 0.088
        CP 79.08a 76.87b 74.89c 74.76c 0.74 0.01
    d 28
        DM 81.01 81.46 81.46 81.37 0.41 0.83
        OM 84.48 84.98 84.88 84.79 0.35 0.75
        GE 81.56 82.33 81.83 81.81 0.44 0.66
        CP 76.67a 77.39a 76.28a 73.80b 0.69 0.01

a–cLeast squares means within a row with different superscripts differ (P < 0.05).

1

Values are least squares means for 6 pens per treatment.