Table 3. Effects of the plane of nutrition (PN) during the grower and finisher phases on growth performance of the growing-finishing pigs during the finisher phase

Item	PN during the rower phase					PN by sex during the finisher phase
	HP1)	MP1)	LP1)	SEM	p-value	Barrow		Gilt		SEM	p-value
						HP2)	LP2)	HP2)	LP2)		S	PN	S × PN
Phase I3)
Initial wt (kg)	71.0	69.4	68.2	1.0	0.26	68.9	67.2	71.2	70.8	1.2	< 0.01	0.44	0.85
Final wt (kg)	92.1	91.5	90.2	1.3	0.61	93.5	88.9	93.0	89.6	1.5	0.98	0.04	0.73
ADG (g)	681	712	710	15	0.30	793	701	703	605	18	< 0.01	< 0.01	0.75
ADFI (kg)	2.18	2.29	2.20	0.10	0.71	2.37	2.35	2.14	2.03	0.11	0.05	0.57	0.66
Gain:feed	0.308	0.312	0.322	0.010	0.50	0.337	0.298	0.329	0.300	0.011	0.99	0.02	0.90
ME intake (Mcal/d)	7.34	7.61	7.31	0.28	0.71	8.18	7.65	7.28	6.58	0.32	0.02	0.11	0.80
Gain:ME (g/Mcal)	92.7	93.8	97.0	2.5	0.51	97.2	91.8	96.8	92.2	2.9	1.00	0.14	0.90
Lysine intake (g/d)	19.3	20.1	19.3	0.8	0.67	22.9	18.8	20.4	16.2	0.9	0.03	< 0.01	0.95
Gain:lysine (g/g)	35.4	35.8	36.9	1.0	0.54	34.7	37.3	34.6	37.5	1.1	1.00	0.05	0.90
Phase II4)
Final wt (kg)	109.3	110.0	109.4	1.2	0.88	112.3	107.5	111.1	107.3	1.4	0.63	0.02	0.70
ADG (g)	622	651	669	19	0.31	698	633	647	612	22	0.16	0.07	0.53
Age to 110 kg5) (d)	185.2	184.5	185.4	2.7	0.97	179.4	188.3	182.3	190.2	3.2	0.49	0.04	0.89
ADFI (kg)	1.97	2.00	2.09	0.08	0.57	2.24	2.09	1.95	1.80	0.09	0.02	0.13	0.98
Gain:feed	0.317	0.328	0.322	0.009	0.74	0.312	0.304	0.331	0.342	0.011	0.04	0.89	0.42
ME intake (Mcal/d)	6.54	6.66	6.94	0.26	0.55	7.61	6.78	6.63	5.84	0.30	0.02	0.03	0.96
Gain:ME (g/Mcal)	95.5	98.7	97.0	2.8	0.74	91.9	93.6	97.6	105.3	3.3	0.04	0.20	0.40
Lysine intake (g/d)	17.2	17.6	18.4	0.67	0.50	21.3	16.7	18.6	14.4	0.77	0.02	< 0.01	0.81
Gain:lysine	36.5	37.3	37.2	1.1	0.74	32.8	38.0	34.9	42.8	1.0	0.04	< 0.01	0.34

Data are least squares means of 4 and 3 replicates of 17 pigs, respectively.
Means ± standard deviations of daily ambient temperature at 13:00 were 31.9 ± 2.7°C and 33.0 ± 1.8°C, respectively.
Estimated from the final wt and ADG.
HP, high plane; MP, medium plane; LP, low plane; SEM, standard error of mean; S, sex; ADG, average daily gain; ADFI, average daily feed intake.