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Table 2 Mean body weight, feed intake and experimentally determined nutrient balances and excretions in the in vivo experiment with pigs fed the three different diets (LS Mean values for six pigs)

From: Models to quantify excretion of dry matter, nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon in growing pigs fed regional diets

Composition

Diet

  

SE1

DK

VN

TH

 

Mean body weight, kg

59.7

60.2

57.1

5.12

Feed intake, kg/d

1.80

1.78

1.43

0.21

Feed DM intake, kg/d

1.62

1.63

1.29

0.19

N

    

N intake, g/d

45.5

51.2

49.2

4.23

N retention, g/d

21.2

23.5

21.2

2.03

Faecal N, g/d

8.79a

13.8b

10.0ab

1.33

Urine N, g/d

15.5

13.9

18.0

2.43

N excretion, % of intake

52.9

54.1

56.1

3.54

N Digestibility, %

80.6a

72.9b

79.9a

1.94

P

    

P intake, g/d

9.17

8.55

9.99

0.84

P retention, g/d

3.91

4.12

4.34

0.38

Faecal P, g/d

4.39

4.37

4.41

0.42

Urine P, g/d

0.87a

0.05b

1.53c

0.22

P excretion, % of intake

57.2

51.8

59.0

2.69

P digestibility, %

51.9ab

48.7a

55.9b

2.21

C

    

C intake, g/d

705ab

770a

573b

53.3

Faecal C, g/d

108a

208b

93a

12.5

Urine C, g/d

19.8

20.7

20.7

2.83

C excretion, % of intake

18.2a

29.7b

19.5a

1.00

C digestibility, %

84.6a

72.9b

84.1a

1.03

  1. DK Danish diet, VN Vietnamese diet, TH Thai diet.
  2. 1Pooled standard error.
  3. LS Means values within a row with the same letter are not significantly different at P<0.05 (Least Square Means test).
  4. abc: Values in a row with different superscripts differ significantly (P<0.05).