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.