Table 10.

Effects of fish meal source on nursery growth performance, experiment 1¹

			Fish meal source2
Item	Control	ESBM3	1	2	3	SEM	Probability, P
Body weight, kg
Day 0	7.06	7.07	7.06	7.06	7.06	0.057	<1.000
Day 13	10.45	10.27	10.30	10.46	10.55	0.181	<0.791
Day 0–13
ADG, g	261	247	249	262	269	11.6	<0.652
ADFI, g	370	342	388	361	367	16.4	<0.406
G:F	0.720x	0.732x	0.657y	0.730x	0.743x	0.0221	<0.068

¹A total of 250 pigs (327 × 1,050 PIC, Hendersonville, TN; initially 7.1 kg body weight) were used in a 13-d growth trial with five pigs per pen and 10 replications per treatment.

²HP 300 (Hamlet Protein, Findlay, OH).

³Fish meal source 1 (IPC 790) was from The Scoular Company (Minneapolis, MN); source 2 (Omega Special Select Menhaden) was from Omega Protein (Houston, TX); and source 3 (LT Prime Menhaden) was from Daybrook Fisheries, Inc. (New Orleans, LA).

^xyWithin the a row with different superscripts differ (P < 0.10).