Table 4. Effects of vitamin supplementation levels in gestation diets on growth performance of sows during lactation

Treatment1) SEM p-value
V1 V3 V6 V9 Lin. Quad.
Body weight (kg)
 24 hours postpartum 246.99 247.81 245.65 243.01 4.252 0.735 0.847
 21 day of lactation 241.67 235.40 237.32 223.46 4.221 0.194 0.660
 BW changes (0-21 d) −5.32 −12.41 −10.91 −19.55 1.909 0.027 0.570
Backfat thickness (mm)
 24 hours postpartum 20.33 21.27 23.35 20.33 1.161 0.830 0.375
 21 day of lactation 19.11 21.91 20.32 20.33 0.946 0.739 0.653
 24 hours postpartum −1.22 −0.64 −3.03 −0.00 0.503 0.881 0.197
ADFI (kg) 5.05 4.90 4.87 4.21 0.143 0.060 0.375
WEI (day) 4.81 5.89 5.07 4.67 0.189 0.447 0.047
Treatment: V1, corn-soybean meal (SBM) based diet with 1× National Research Council (NRC, 2012) vitamin requirement; V3, corn-SBM-based diet with 3× NRC (2012) vitamin requirement; V6, corn-SBM-based diet with 6× NRC (2012) vitamin requirement; V9, corn-SBM-based diet with 9× NRC (2012) vitamin requirement.
Lin., linear; Quad., quadratic; BW, body weight; ADFI, average daily feed intake; WEI, weaning to estrus interval.