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Table 7.

Growth performance for pigs fed the positive control diet (PC), the negative control diet (NC), or the NC diet supplemented with 500 or 1,000 FTU¹/kg diets of the corn-expressed phytase² or the commercial phytase³, Exp. 2⁴

			Corn-expressed phytase		Commercial phytase
Item	PC	NC	500 FTU	1,000 FTU	500 FTU	1,000 FTU	Pooled SEM	P-value
Initial BW, kg	11.26	11.28	11.21	11.18	11.04	11.23	0.33	0.996
Final BW, kg	32.26^a	27.17^b	27.87^b	29.81^ab	30.01^ab	29.53^ab	1.42	0.002
ADG, g/d	749^a	564^c	596^bc	650^abc	685^ab	654^ab	48	0.001
ADFI, g/d	1,254	1,201	1,085	1,257	1,309	1,185	61	0.151
G:F	0.60^a	0.47^b	0.56^a	0.52^ab	0.53^ab	0.55^ab	0.04	0.001

^a–cMeans within a row without a common superscript are different (P < 0.05).

¹FTU = phytase units.

²Corn-expressed phytase (GraINzyme; Agrivida, Inc., Woburn, MA).

³Commercial phytase (AxtraPhy; Danisco Animal Nutrition-DuPont Industrial Biosciences, Waukesha, WI).

⁴Data are means of 8 observations per treatment.