Table 7.
Effect of replacing soybean meal with fermented corn germ meal (FCGM) in the diets on growth performance of growing pigs.
| Item | Dietary treatments1 |
SEM2 |
P-value |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FCGM0 | FCGM10 | FCGM20 | FCGM30 | Linear | Quadratic | |||
| Initial BW, kg | 56.0 | 56.0 | 56.0 | 56.1 | 3.93 | 0.96 | 0.93 | |
| Final BW, kg | 75.8 | 76.8 | 76.6 | 74.0 | 4.32 | 0.11 | 0.06 | |
| ADG, g/d | 660 | 693 | 687 | 597 | 21.30 | 0.06 | 0.01 | |
| ADFI, g/d | 2036 | 2090 | 2148 | 2017 | 56.50 | 0.46 | 0.03 | |
| F:G | 3.08 | 3.01 | 3.13 | 3.38 | 0.09 | 0.11 | 0.57 | |
BW = body weight; ADG = average daily gain; ADFI = average daily feed intake; F:G = feed conversion ratio.
1
FCGM0, FCGM10, FCGM20 and FCGM30 diets were made by substituting fermented corn germ meal for 0%, 10%, 20% and 30% soybean meal.
2
SEM stands for the standard error of the mean (n = 6).