Table 8.
Effect of replacing soybean meal with fermented corn germ meal (FCGM) in the diets on nutrient utilization of growing pigs (%).
| Item | Dietary treatments1 |
SEM2 |
P-value |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FCGM0 | FCGM10 | FCGM20 | FCGM30 | Linear | Quadratic | ||
| GE | 81.7 | 81.9 | 82.4 | 80.4 | 0.54 | 0.15 | 0.16 |
| CP | 77.7 | 79.2 | 79.8 | 78.8 | 0.74 | 0.27 | 0.09 |
| OM | 82.4 | 81.9 | 81.7 | 81.6 | 0.03 | 0.14 | 0.56 |
| ADF | 41.5 | 40.5 | 46.2 | 44.5 | 1.81 | 0.08 | <0.01 |
| NDF | 50.5 | 45.9 | 54.8 | 54.8 | 1.91 | 0.02 | 0.26 |
GE = gross energy; CP = crude protein; OM = organic matter; ADF = acid detergent fiber; NDF = and neutral detergent fiber.
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).