Table 1.
Physical forms of the different experimental diets administered to pigs after wet sieving analysis, reporting proportions on DM basis of two sieves with different mesh size (>1 and <0.2 mm) and mean particle size (15).
| Diet | I | II | III | IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pellet, fine | Meal, coarse | Pellet, coarse | Extruded, coarse | |
| Grinding | Hammer mill | Roller mill | Roller mill | Roller mill |
| >1 mm | 8.97 | 45.8 | 41.6 | 29.3 |
| <0.2 mm | 42.4 | 27.2 | 32.7 | 43.7 |
| dMean (mm) | 0.463 | 0.880 | 0.836 | 0.659 |