Effects of varying nursery phase-feeding programs on growth performance of pigs during the nursery and subsequent grow-finish phases

Table 2 Nursery phase (P)-feeding programs (treatments): experimental design

	7 days		7 days		7 days		12 days
High¹	Nursery P 1	T²	Nursery P 2			T³	Nursery P 3
Medium¹	Nursery P 2			T³	Nursery P 3
Low¹	Nursery P 2	T²	Nursery P 3			T³	High-plane grow-finish P 1

¹Indicated group of nursery pigs received the indicated diets between d 21 and 54 of age. All pigs received the medium-plane grow-finish phases 1, 2, and 3 diets during days 54-96, 96-135, and 135-182 of age, respectively. See Table 1 for nutritional values of the diets.
^2,3Transition with 20 and 30 kg of mixtures of two diets of the adjoining phases, respectively.

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