Table 8.

Effects of soybean hulls on nursery pig performance (experiment 1)¹

Soybean hulls, %	0	5	10	15	20	SEM	Probability, P <
							Linear	Quadratic
d 0 to 13
ADG, g	218	210	201	186	175	12.0	0.01	0.79
ADFI, g	329	322	343	324	300	14.0	0.21	0.16
G:F	0.673	0.663	0.591	0.583	0.594	0.023	0.01	0.23
d 13 to 34
ADG, g	579	582	571	558	510	14.0	0.01	0.07
ADFI, g	897	889	918	911	847	23.0	0.30	0.10
G:F	0.646	0.654	0.622	0.612	0.603	0.009	0.01	0.62
d 0 to 34
ADG, g	441	440	429	415	382	11.0	0.01	0.11
ADFI, g	680	673	698	685	638	18.0	0.23	0.10
G:F	0.651	0.656	0.616	0.607	0.602	0.009	0.01	0.88
Caloric efficiency2	3.66	3.51	3.60	3.53	3.44	0.05	0.02	0.84
BW, kg
d 0	6.64	6.64	6.75	6.64	6.64	0.06	1.00	0.38
d 13	9.48	9.37	9.36	9.17	8.91	0.17	0.02	0.47
d 34	21.67	21.61	21.37	20.92	19.64	0.40	0.01	0.09

¹A total of 210 nursery pigs (PIC 337 × 1050, initially 6.6 ± 0.1 kg) were used in a 34-d study with seven pigs per pen and six replications per treatment.

²Caloric efficiencies, Mcal/kg gain = (total feed intake, kg × dietary NE, Mcal/kg) ÷ total weight gain, kg.