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. 2020 Jul 20;98(8):skaa232. doi: 10.1093/jas/skaa232

Table 5.

Fetal body, liver, and muscle weights of 2 median weigh male and female fetuses per litter harvested at 111 d of gestation from sows submitted to 4 different supplementation treatments (adapted from Nelson, 2019)

Measurement Treatments1 SEM P-value
CON BEEF B+S SUGAR Trt
Liver, g 33.4a 31.4a 34.2ab 40.1b 2.16 0.04
Liver, % BW 4.07 2.70 2.75 2.49 0.78 0.32
Semimembranosus with adductor, g 7.13 7.93 7.74 7.12 0.86 0.84
Semimembranosus with adductor, % BW 0.89 0.66 0.62 0.41 0.21 0.30
Semitendinosus, g 3.41 3.28 3.76 3.48 0.48 0.53
Semitendinosus, % BW 0.29 0.23 0.21 0.13 0.07 0.34

1CON, control supplement (378 g/d corn–soybean meal); BEEF, cooked ground beef supplement (330 g/d); B+S, cooked ground beef (165 g/d) and granulated sugar (129 g/d); SUGAR, granulated sugar supplement (255 g/d).

abMeans without a common superscript differ (P ≤ 0.05).