Table 3.

Growth performance of nursery pigs fed diets with increasing levels of nucleotides (NUC) on day 21

							P-value
	Nucleotides1, mg/kg						NUC		0 vs.
Item	0	50	150	250	500	SEM	Linear	Quadratic	NUC	50 + 150
BW, kg
Day 0	4.8	4.8	4.8	4.8	4.8	0.2	0.778	0.676	0.963	0.720
Day 11	6.9	7.4	7.4	6.8	7.1	0.4	0.919	0.894	0.195	0.063
Day 21	10.6	11.6	11.6	10.8	10.5	0.7	0.230	0.310	0.336	0.075
ADG, g/d
Phase 1	190	233	239	189	215	25	0.968	0.815	0.182	0.059
Phase 2	378	424	425	397	350	32	0.208	0.248	0.589	0.206
Overall	280	324	323	288	272	25	0.244	0.290	0.340	0.067
ADFI, g/d
Phase 1	218	276	283	231	250	24	0.997	0.418	0.049	0.015
Phase 2	464	532	538	486	450	36	0.259	0.195	0.313	0.059
Overall	335	398	404	359	346	28	0.449	0.165	0.124	0.023
G:F
Phase 1	0.85	0.84	0.87	0.82	0.84	0.05	0.778	0.908	0.873	0.949
Phase 2	0.82	0.79	0.78	0.82	0.78	0.03	0.620	0.888	0.453	0.386
Overall	0.83	0.81	0.81	0.80	0.79	0.03	0.350	0.864	0.390	0.565

¹Nucleotides were extracted from yeast cell and provided from Hinabiotech (Guangzhou, China).