Disappearance and appearance of an indigestible marker in feces from growing pigs as affected by previous- and current-diet composition

Table 5 Sigmoidal response parameters for P2 fecal Cr disappearance and P2 fecal Ti appearance for growing pigs fed different diets during Phase-1 and Phase-2

Phase × diet combinations		NDF ∆	Fecal Cr disappearance,	Fecal Ti appearance,
Phase-1	Phase-2	% Units^b	d reach limit of quantitation^c	d to reach 95% maximum^d
CS^a	CS	0	4.1	3.7
CS	DDGS	+5.25	3.3	3.5
CS	DDC	−4.74	4.9	3.9
DDGS	CS	−5.25	3.1	3.5
DDGS	DDGS	0	2.5	2.8
DDGS	DDC	−9.99	4.8	4.2
DDC	CS	+4.74	2.6	2.2
DDC	DDGS	+9.99	3.8	3.2
DDC	DDC	0	5.1	4.6

^a Abbreviations: CS corn-soybean meal based diet, DDGS corn-soybean meal-distillers dried grains based diet, DDC dehulled, degermed corn-soybean meal based diet
^bChange in analyzed dietary NDF, percentage units
^cAs determined by sigmoidal response of phase × diet treatment means obtained from Table 3. The Cr limit of quantitation was 0.3 mg Cr/kg
^dAs determined by sigmoidal response of phase × diet treatment means obtained from Table 4. The Ti limit of quantitation was 6 mg Ti/kg

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