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 | |||
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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).