. 2023 Jan 13;7(1):txad008. doi: 10.1093/tas/txad008

Table 3.

Growth performance data¹

BW, kg	Positive Control (PC)	Negative Control (NC)	Treatment (T1)	Treatment (T2)	Treatment (T3)	Treatment (T4)	SEM	P-value
Day 0	6.89	6.86	6.87	6.93	6.90	6.87	0.34	0.4251
Day 6	8.18	8.11	7.99	7.96	7.97	8.03	0.38	0.3381
Day 13	9.94^a	9.57^b	9.57^b	9.34^b	9.51^b	9.51^b	0.42	0.0194
Day 20	12.85^a	11.93^b	11.97^b	11.63^b	11.97^b	11.74^b	0.50	<0.0001
Day 27	16.52^a	14.76^b	15.17^b	14.62^b	15.01^b	14.64^b	0.61	<0.0001
ADG, g
Day 0–6	214.5	208.6	187.1	170.7	179.1	194.1	14.9	0.1089
Day 6–13	251.6^a	208.9^b	220.8^ab	197.4^b	219.6^b	211.9^b	12.1	0.0290
Day 13–20	419.2^a	337.3^b	342.5^b	328.1^b	350.3^b	318.8^b	17.7	<0.0001
Day 20–27	523.4^a	404.5^c	457.0^b	427.3^bc	434.8^bc	410.9^c	18.9	<0.0001
Overall (0–27)	356.6^a	292.9^b	307.2^b	284.9^b	300.4^b	287.8^b	12.3	<0.0001
ADFI, g
Day 0–6	159.5	168.4	164.7	143.9	148.9	162.7	10.6	0.3126
Day 6–13	274.8	261.1	271.1	242.9	266.4	270.1	12.4	0.2013
Day 13–20	468.7^a	427.5^ab	444.1^ab	408.8^b	409.5^b	409.7^b	21.9	0.0399
Day 20–27	614.9^a	518.2^c	579.4^ab	545.9^bc	552.9^bc	530.3^c	22.6	0.0008
Overall (d 0–27)	387.6^a	350.3^b	372.3^ab	342.5^b	344.6^b	349.9^b	15.8	0.0238
Gain:feed, g/g
Day 0–6	1.34^a	1.22^b	1.11^c	1.17^bc	1.20^b	1.20^b	0.03	<0.0001
Day 6–13	0.91^a	0.81^b	0.82^b	0.81^b	0.83^b	0.78^b	0.03	0.0044
Day 13–20	0.89^a	0.79^b	0.77^b	0.80^b	0.76^b	0.78^b	0.02	0.0029
Day 20–27	0.86^a	0.78^b	0.79^b	0.78^b	0.74^b	0.78^b	0.02	0.0356
Overall (d 0–27)	0.92^a	0.84^b	0.83^b	0.83^b	0.79^b	0.83^b	0.02	0.0012

BW, bodyweight; ADG, average daily gain; ADFI, average daily feed intake; SEM, standard error of means.

¹Data represents LSMEANS of 18 replicate pens per treatment.

^a–cLSMeans within a row without a common superscript differ at (P < 0.05).