Table 4. Effect of dietary zinc oxide of concentrations and sources on nutrient digestibility in weaning piglets (%)
Item | Experiment 1 | Experiment 2 |
Control | In2500 | N500 | N150 | SEM | p-value | In2500 | N300 | N150 | SEM | p-value |
Phase 1 (d 14) |
DM | 80.5 | 82.02 | 81.78 | 81.05 | 0.3 | 0.291 | 80.46 | 80.79 | 80.07 | 0.23 | 0.469 |
CP | 77.84 | 80.47 | 79.25 | 78.76 | 0.41 | 0.119 | 78.23 | 78.41 | 77.63 | 0.26 | 0.468 |
EE | 72.21 | 73.27 | 73.04 | 72.61 | 0.19 | 0.697 | | | | | |
GE | 82.85 | 83.39 | 83.42 | 82.97 | 0.2 | 0.288 | 82.91 | 83.07 | 82.7 | 0.29 | 0.896 |
Phase 2 (d 28) |
DM | 78.18 | 80.35 | 80.25 | 79.19 | 0.37 | 0.108 | 79.57 | 79.29 | 79.05 | 0.27 | 0.771 |
CP | 75.56b | 78.90a | 78.63a | 76.94ab | 0.52 | 0.042 | 77.2 | 77.69 | 76.58 | 0.29 | 0.324 |
EE | 71.6 | 72.13 | 71.93 | 71.91 | 0.16 | 0.759 | | | | | |
GE | 80.91 | 81.88 | 81.97 | 81.16 | 0.34 | 0.678 | 82.07 | 82.13 | 81.3 | 0.36 | 0.626 |
Means within a column with different superscripts differ significantly (p < 0.05).
DM, dry matter; CP, crude protein; EE, ether extract; GE, gross energy.