Table 1.

Experimental design and treatments.

Items	Landrace pigs			Bama mini-pigs
	BW (kg)	GB diets	NRC diets	BW (kg)	GB diets	NRC diets
Nursery stage	7–20	GB diet 1	NRC diet 1	3–15	GB diet 1	NRC diet 1
Growing stage	21–50	GB diet 2	NRC diet 2	16–35	GB diet 2	NRC diet 2
Finishing stage	51–90	GB diet 3	NRC diet 3	36–55	GB diet 3	NRC diet 3

BW, body weight; GB diet, diet of Chinese Feeding Standard for Swine (2004); NRC diet, diet recommended by the National Research Council (2012).