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. 2021 May 28;11(6):1591. doi: 10.3390/ani11061591

Table 2.

Growth performance of nursery pigs fed diets with increasing supplementation of functional oils.

Item Functional Oils, g/kg Feed 1 p-Value
0.00 0.50 0.75 1.00 1.50 SEM Linear Quadratic 0 vs. Others
BW, kg
Initial 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.0 0.5 0.922 0.988 0.913
d 13 9.3 9.0 9.3 9.3 9.5 0.8 0.432 0.554 0.899
d 34 22.5 22.0 23.1 22.0 23.6 1.6 0.205 0.570 0.787
ADG, g/d
Phase 1 173 149 174 160 194 30 0.261 0.491 0.859
Phase 2 628 617 658 617 669 40 0.223 0.693 0.659
Overall 454 441 473 442 488 35 0.166 0.535 0.753
ADFI, g/d
Phase 1 205 237 258 253 247 43 0.392 0.284 0.161
Phase 2 926 910 997 953 1031 75 0.109 0.938 0.426
Overall 650 652 715 685 731 61 0.114 0.720 0.291
G:F
Phase 1 0.85 0.63 0.66 0.65 0.79 0.05 0.758 0.004 0.003
Phase 2 0.68 0.69 0.66 0.65 0.66 0.02 0.216 0.423 0.450
Overall 0.70 0.68 0.67 0.65 0.67 0.02 0.319 0.127 0.141

1 Five supplemental levels of functional oils (n = 40 total, n = 8 per supplemental level); Results are showed as least squared means.