Table 2. Growth performance and carcass qualityof heavy pigs raised at different floor space allowances.

	Floor space allowance
	1 m2/head	1.3 m2/head	SE1	P-value
Pens, n° (replications)	6	6
Body Weight (BW), kg
Initial (d 1)	23.8	23.9	1.0	0.96
d 81	65.6	66.8	1.0	0.59
d 139	100.8	104.3	1.1	0.10
Final (d 224)	154.4	162.6	1.8	0.02
Average Daily Gain (ADG), kg/d
d 1–81	0.516	0.529	0.006	0.27
d 82–139	0.606	0.647	0.012	0.10
d 140–224	0.631	0.686	0.010	<0.01
Overall ADG (d 1–224)	0.583	0.619	0.008	0.01
G:F (Gain-to-Feed ratio)
d 1–81	0.345	0.353	0.004	0.28
d 82–139	0.269	0.287	0.005	0.10
d 140–224	0.206	0.223	0.004	0.03
Overall G:F (d 1–224)	0.256	0.271	0.004	0.02
Pigs, n°	30	30
Carcass Weight (CW, kg)	134.8	136.7	1.0	0.37
Dressing out, %	83.0	83.5	0.2	0.13
Backfat thickness, mm	22.6	24.0	0.4	0.08
Lean meat, %	52.6	51.7	0.3	0.16
Thigh, %CW	24.2	24.5	0.1	0.19
Shoulder, %CW	14.9	14.9	0.1	0.87
Loin, %CW	10.6	10.9	0.1	0.15

¹Standard Error