Effects of sires with different weight gain potentials and varying planes of nutrition on growth of growing-finishing pigs

Table 2 Experimental design: dietary regimens for the pigs born from two groups of sires with medium and high weight gain potentials

Sire group		Grower				Finisher
Sire group	Plane of nutrition (PN)	Phase 1		Phase 2		PN	Phase 1		Phase 2
	Plane of nutrition (PN)	Diet¹⁾	Days	Diet¹⁾	Days	PN	Diet¹⁾	Days²⁾	Diet¹⁾	Days²⁾
Medium weight gain potential	High (H)	H	26	H	29	H	H	28 or 29	M	38 to 42
	Medium (M)	M	27	M	29	H
	Low (L)	L	29	L	28	L	L	35 or 36	L	45 or 46
High weight gain potential	H	H	26	H	29	M	M	30 or 31	L	37 or 38
High weight gain potential	M	M	27	M	29	M
	L	L	29	L	28	L	L	37	L	38

¹⁾See Table 1 for the nutritional composition of the diets for the high (H)-, medium (M)-, and low (L)-planes of nutrition during each phase.
²⁾See Tables 4 and5 for more details.