Porcine Health Management

Table 2 Performance of pigs during early finishing periods (experiment 1)

From: Short communication: Estimation of the dietary standardized ileal digestible valine to lysine ratio required for 40 to 130 kg pigs during the finisher periods

	SID Val to Lys ratio						P value
Item	0.61	0.65	0.69	0.73	0.77	SEM	ANOVA	Linear	Quadratic
IBW, kg	39.8	39.8	40.5	40.7	40.6	0.16	0.239	0.044	0.550
FBW, kg	74.7^b	75.8^ab	76.7^a	76.0^ab	75.1^ab	0.22	0.023	0.414	0.002
ADFI, kg	2.31	2.26	2.32	2.30	2.31	0.03	0.601	0.694	0.618
Val intake, g	10.6^d	11.1^d	12.0^c	12.6^b	13.7^a	0.23	0.000	0.000	0.090
Val:G	11.5^d	11.7^d	12.6^c	13.6^b	15.1^a	0.27	0.000	0.000	0.000
ADG, kg	0.92^b	0.95^a	0.95^a	0.93^ab	0.91^b	0.01	0.001	0.140	0.000
F:G	2.52^a	2.39^b	2.43^ab	2.47^ab	2.54^a	0.02	0.015	0.214	0.003

Abbreviations: SID = standardized ileal digestible; IBW = initial bodyweight; FBW = final bodyweight; ADFI = average daily feed intake; Val intake = daily SID Val intake; Val: G = daily SID Val intake (g)/average daily gain (kg); ADG = average daily gain; F:G = feed to gain ratio; n = 5

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