Table 3.

The effect of dietary vitamin D supplementation of pig performance¹

Vitamin D supplementation, IU/kg diet	0	1,500	P-value
Item
Initial weight (day 0), kg2	10.29 ± 0.26	9.972 ± 0.37	0.952
Final weight, kg	14.46 ± 0.29	14.44 ± 0.40	0.952
ADFI, kg/d	1.213 ± 0.03	1.230 ± 0.03	0.836
ADG, kg/d	0.386 ± 0.007	0.408 ± 0.01	0.986

¹Means ± SE, n = 20 for 0 IU/kg and n = 11 for 1,500 IU/kg.

²Day 0 refers to the day pigs began consuming the various dietary treatments. Data were transformed to achieve normality by y² transformation. Statistics were conducted on transformed data but actual means and SE are presented.