Performance of commercial growing-finishing pigs fed supplemental isoquinoline alkaloids: a statistical process control analysis

Table 3 Overall means and standard deviation (SD) for growth performance, cost of medicine, mortality and runts

	Before IQ		IQ supplementation		After IQ		p-Value
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p-Value
ADFI (g/d)	2118.94	290.28	2036.46	282.39	2103.02	273.29	0.11
ADG (g/d)	852.17	85.99	851.34	88.44	861.30	82.30	0.44
FCR	2.55^a	0.15	2.45^b	0.12	2.51^a	0.14	0.007
Cost of medicine (euro/pig)	1.22	0.86	1.07	0.76	1.17	0.80	0.41
Mortality (%)	4.18	2.57	4.49	3.09	4.21	2.75	0.52
Runts (%)	1.07	0.77	1.15	1.07	0.93	0.78	0.16

The Tukey’s test was performed to detect differences between the study periods
Before IQ Before supplementation period; IQ supplementation supplementation period with isoquinoline alkaloids; After IQ after supplementation period
^a,bp ≤ 0.05

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