Table 3.

Growth performance of nursery pigs fed diets with increasing Corynebacterium glutamicum cell mass (CGCM) supplementation

	CGCM, %1					P-value
Item	0	0.7	1.4	2.1	SEM	Linear	Quadratic
BW, kg
Initial	7.1	7.1	7.2	7.2	0.6	0.569	0.964
Final, day 21	12.1	12.0	12.1	12.7	1.1	0.494	0.599
ADG, g	237	234	234	264	33	0.554	0.591
ADFI, g	433	433	456	471	36	0.378	0.820
G:F	0.55	0.53	0.50	0.55	0.04	0.910	0.309

¹Four supplemental levels of CGCM (n = 32 total, n = 8 per supplemental level).