Table 6.
Economic benefit analysis of different amounts of wheat aleurone inclusion in the gestation diets.
| Item | Diet1 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| CON | 15%WA | 30%WA | |
| Feed price, $/1,000 kg | 373.1 | 373.8 | 390.2 |
| Feed consumption during gestation per sow, kg | 271.0 | 271.0 | 271.0 |
| Feed cost per sow, $ | 101.1 | 101.3 | 105.7 |
| Piglets born alive | 13.3 | 14.8 | 13.7 |
| Production cost per piglet born alive, $ | 7.6 | 6.9 | 7.7 |
| Piglets born healthy | 12.8 | 13.6 | 12.9 |
| Production cost per piglet born healthy, $ | 7.9 | 7.4 | 8.2 |
1
CON, control diet group; 15% WA, 15% wheat aleurone diet group; 30% WA, 30% wheat aleurone diet group.