Table 4.
Effects of crude protein (CP) proportion in diets on growth performance in weaned piglets.
Item | Diets1 |
SEM | P-value | |
---|---|---|---|---|
CP17 | CP20 | |||
Initial BW, kg | 9.56 | 9.48 | 0.142 | 0.972 |
ADG, g | 446.6 | 505.4 | 18.5 | 0.003 |
ADFI, g | 766.8 | 837.6 | 27.6 | 0.089 |
F:G ratio | 1.71 | 1.65 | 0.0290 | 0.793 |
Final BW, kg | 29.64 | 32.23 | 0.799 | 0.039 |
BW = body weight; ADG = average daily gain; ADFI = average daily feed intake; F:G ratio = feed to gain ratio.
CP20 is the diet containing 20% CP; CP17 is the diet containing 17% CP. Number of observation is 6.