Table 6.

Effect of sows’ intake of micelle silymarin from the 109th prenatal day to the 21st postnatal day on sow nutrient digestibility¹(%)

Items	Micelle silymarin (% of diet)				CON vs. Micelle Silymarin	P-value
	0	0.05	0.1	0.2		Linear	Quadratic
Dry matter	73.04 ± 1.84	74.05 ± 0.80	72.93 ± 0.63	71.29 ± 0.32	0.821	0.144	0.373
Nitrogen	70.39 ± 1.49	71.43 ± 1.09	70.69 ± 0.22	70.00 ± 0.38	0.807	0.641	0.549
Gross energy	71.08 ± 2.09	71.86 ± 0.82	71.66 ± 0.73	70.11 ± 0.47	0.926	0.467	0.406

¹Values are presented as means ± SE, n = 8.