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Table 7 Effect of the Treatment on carcass weight and lean percentage of pigs slaughtered in Trial 2

From: Strategies to improve the growth and homogeneity of growing-finishing pigs: feeder space and feeding management

Item

Treatment1

  

Specific, Sp

Standard, Std

SEM

P-value

Time2

Time

First

Second

Third

First

Second

Third

Treatment

Time

Treatment*Time

Number of pigs, n

218

202

110

213

209

96

–

–

–

–

Body weight*, kg

103.4

109.9

105.0

102,2

107.0

100.6

–

–

–

–

Carcass weight, kg

82.69c

87.58a

83.76bc

81.93cd

85.22b

80.46d

0.264

0.001

0.001

0.016

Lean tissue, %

63.20b

64.01a

64.46a

63.12b

64.04a

64.46a

0.090

0.927

0.001

0.862

  1. 1Treatment refers to “Group” treatment (G1: Group1 for the Sp treatment or G2: Group 2 for the Std treatment);*Refers to the average BW of the animals in the first, second and third truck
  2. 2The ‘Time’ describes the three trucks that were used to empty the fattening facility as pigs were approaching market BW
  3. a,b,c,d Different superscripts within a row indicate significant differences (P<0.05).
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