Table 2.
Characteristics of the experimental diets
| Items | Group | SEM | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Powder creep feed | Hard pellet creep feed | Soft pellet creep feed | |||
| Moisture content (%) | 10.07A | 12.76B | 26.97C | 0.17 | <0.01 |
| Starch gelatinization (%) | 5.65A | 45.08B | 86.40C | 0.90 | <0.01 |
| Hardness (g) | -1) | 2,690B | 505A | 69 | <0.01 |
SEM, standard error of the mean.
1)
The hardness of powder creep feed can not be determined. “-” means no data.
A–C
Means in the same row with different superscript letters were significantly different (p≤0.05).