Table 5.

Effect of dietary cereal soaking with or without carbohydrase supplementation on growth, feed intake, feed efficiency and carcass quality of grow-finisher pigs^a.

Cereal soaking (Csoak)b:	Fresh	Fresh	Soak	Soak	SEMd	P-value
Enzyme (ENZ)c:	−	+	−	+		ENZ	Csoak	ENZ*Csoak
Live weight, kg
Day 0	33.5	33.3	33.3	33.5	1.25	0.99	0.96	0.87
Day 21	50.7	50.0	51.1	51.2	0.36	0.36	<0.05	0.23
Day 70	99.0	98.2	98.6	100.4	0.73	0.47	0.23	0.08
ADFIe, g/day
Day 0 to 21	2010	1984	1991	2059	46.7	0.66	0.55	0.67
Day 21 to 70	3033	2975	2976	3041	46.7	0.94	0.92	0.63
Day 0 to 70	2521	2479	2484	2550	43.0	0.78	0.71	0.21
ADGf, g/day
Day 0 to 21	881a,b	845b	896a,b	902a	15.3	0.33	<0.05	<0.05
Day 21 to 70	1013	1013	999	1035	15.3	0.23	0.81	0.41
Day 0 to 70	947	929	947	969	11.1	0.87	0.08	0.08
FCRg, g/g
Day 0 to 21	2.36	2.43	2.32	2.38	0.067	0.34	0.48	0.70
Day 21 to 70	3.06	2.97	3.00	3.00	0.067	0.51	0.80	0.84
Day 0 to 70	2.71	2.70	2.66	2.69	0.059	0.86	0.59	0.76
Carcass traits
Carcass cold weight, kg	73.8	73.6	73.5	75.1	0.67	0.31	0.38	0.18
Kill out percentage, %	74.5	74.7	74.7	74.7	0.23	0.59	0.73	0.73
Muscle depth, mm	50.5	49.9	50.5	50.1	0.39	0.18	0.83	0.89
Fat depth, mm	12.6	12.8	12.2	13.0	0.21	<0.05	0.66	0.18
Lean meat, %	57.0	56.9	57.4	56.7	0.18	<0.05	0.56	0.19

^aValues within a row that do not share a common superscript are statistically different (P < 0.05).

^bSoaking the cereal fraction of the diet prior to feeding (fresh = 0 h soaking, soak = 3 h soaking).

^cEnzyme supplementation with a xylanase and β-glucanase complex [unsupplemented (−), supplemented (+)].

^dSEM = standard error of the mean.

^eADFI = average daily feed intake, as 88%DM.

^fADG = average daily gain.

^gFCR = feed conversion ratio, as 88% DM of feed intake.