Table 2.
Effects of dietary LM1 on growth performance and backfat thickness of growing pigs.
| Items | Dose of LM1 | SEMa | P -value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON | LL | ML | MH | HH | Linear | Quadratic | Cubic | ||
| BW, kg | |||||||||
| Initial | 21.21 | 21.21 | 21.20 | 21.20 | 21.21 | 1.14 | - | - | - |
| Final | 46.38 | 46.50 | 47.46 | 48.99 | 46.52 | 2.91 | 0.699 | 0.918 | 0.737 |
| Overall | |||||||||
| ADG, g/d | 599 | 602 | 625 | 668 | 600 | 44 | 0.514 | 0.865 | 0.563 |
| ADFI, g/d | 1,335 | 1,341 | 1,377 | 1,403 | 1,330 | 121 | 0.816 | 0.983 | 0.754 |
| G: F | 0.451 | 0.453 | 0.472 | 0.482 | 0.450 | 0.02 | 0.479 | 0.983 | 0.326 |
| Backfat thickness, mm | |||||||||
| Initial | 5.60 | 5.62 | 5.62 | 5.64 | 5.62 | 0.09 | 0.801 | 0.990 | 0.821 |
| Final | 9.72 | 10.14 | 10.28 | 10.52 | 9.81 | 0.23 | 0.115 | 0.314 | 0.263 |
aSEM represented pooled standard error of mean, n = 6.