Item
|
Experimental diets
|
SE
|
Sig
|
---|
SBM
|
BCSM
|
CSM
|
SSM
|
---|
No. of animals
|
5
|
5
|
5
|
5
| | |
Feeding period (day)
|
66
|
66
|
66
|
66
| | |
Initial body wt. (kg)
|
43.50
|
41.50
|
41.50
|
39.00
|
1.66
|
NS
|
Final body wt. (kg)
|
55.40
|
55.40
|
57.00
|
52.60
|
1.34
|
NS
|
Body wt. gain (kg/period)
|
11.90b
|
13.90b
|
15.50a
|
13.60b
|
0.47
|
*
|
Av. weight gain (g/h/day)
|
180.30c
|
210.61b
|
234.85a
|
206.06b
|
7.36
|
*
|
Feed intake (g DM/head/days)
|
Concentrate
|
1035.32
|
1162.50
|
1158.20
|
1170.46
| | |
Roughage
|
308.25
|
242.35
|
300.00
|
295.70
| | |
Total
|
1343.57
|
1404.85
|
1458.20
|
1466.16
| | |
Feed conversion
|
7.45
|
6.67
|
6.21
|
7.12
|
0.24
|
NS
|
Economic evaluation
|
Income
|
380.80
|
444.80
|
496.00
|
435.20
|
–
|
–
|
Feed cost
|
195.10
|
203.98
|
211.55
|
212.92
|
–
|
–
|
Revenue
|
185.70
|
240.82
|
284.45
|
222.28
|
–
|
–
|
Efficiency (L.E./h)
|
–
|
55.12
|
98.75
|
36.58
|
–
|
–
|
Relative efficiency (%)
|
100
|
129.68
|
153.18
|
119.70
|
–
|
–
|
- a, b and c: Means in the same row with different superscripts are significantly different at (p < 0.01)
- SE, standard error; NS, nonsignificant difference
- *Significant difference at (p < 0.05), **Significant difference at (p < 0.01). Because group feeding was used in the feeding trial, the data of feed intake did not subject to statistical analysis