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Table 4.

The daily feed intake, daily feces output and daily balance of GE for growing pigs fed corn germ meal diets¹⁾

Item	Corn germ meal source										SEM	p-value

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Daily feed intake (kg/d)	2.02	2.01	2.04	1.95	1.98	2.00	2.04	1.98	2.00	1.99	0.03	0.99
Daily feces output (kg/d)	0.99^b	1.10^ab	1.01^b	1.14^ab	0.92^b	1.10^ab	1.09^ab	0.92^b	1.26^a	1.02b	0.02	0.02
Daily balance of GE (MJ/d)
GE intake	37.48	36.85	37.57	36.00	36.31	36.99	37.71	36.62	36.63	36.95	1.50	0.10
GE in feces	5.17^b	5.48^ab	5.42^ab	5.72^ab	5.19^b	5.66^ab	5.90^ab	5.06^b	6.73^a	5.72^ab	0.29	<0.01
GE in urine	0.50	0.64	0.78	0.63	0.78	0.51	0.70	0.69	0.47	0.74	0.11	0.34

GE, gross energy; SEM, standard error of the mean.

¹⁾

Data are means of 6 observations per treatment.

^a,b

Within a row, different superscripts indicate a significant difference (p<0.05).