Effects of different physical forms of concentrate on performance, carcass characteristics, and economic analysis in hanwoo steers

Table 6 Body weight and daily gain of Hanwoo steers by treatment

Items	FC¹⁾	GC²⁾	T-test³⁾
No. of heads	18	24
Body weight (kg)
Initial (5 mo)	146.7 ± 1.35	147.4 ± 0.99	0.9253
Growing (14 mo)	370.7 ± 1.81	374.5 ± 1.22	0.6985
Fattening (22 mo)	562.2 ± 2.47	575.1 ± 1.90	0.2297
Finishing (30 mo)	702.9 ± 2.90	739.2 ± 2.67	0.0483
Average daily gain (kg)
Growing phase	0.84 ± 0.00	0.85 ± 0.00	0.6629
Fattening phase	0.77 ± 0.01	0.80 ± 0.01	0.3220
Finishing phase	0.59 ± 0.00	0.67 ± 0.01	0.0548
Overall period	0.73 ± 0.00	0.78 ± 0.00	0.0414

¹⁾Growing (flaked & pelleted diet), fattening (flaked & pelleted diet) & finishing (flaked & pelleted diet).
²⁾Growing (ground diet), fattening (ground diet) & finishing (flaked & pelleted diet).
³⁾Probability of the T test.

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