Table 4. Influence of various milk by-products levels in weaned pig diet on BUN and IGF-1 of weaned pigs1)
Criteria | Treatments2) | SEM | p-value |
NM | LM | MM | HM | Linear | Quadratic |
BUN (mg/dL) |
2 weeks | 16.63 | 15.01 | 9.33 | 13.49 | 1.158 | 0.103 | 0.586 |
5 weeks | 16.20 | 16.17 | 13.37 | 13.27 | 0.722 | 0.105 | 0.983 |
IGF-1 (ng/mL) |
2 weeks | 62.03 | 73.02 | 80.47 | 72.16 | 5.381 | 0.437 | 0.434 |
5 weeks | 47.23 | 69.20 | 67.03 | 57.66 | 5.451 | 0.951 | 0.082 |
Least squares means of 6 observations per treatment.
NM, almost no milk by-products, 5% / 0%; LM, lower milk by-products, 10% / 5%; MM, middle milk by-products, 20% / 10%), HM, high milk by-products, 30% / 15%.
BUN, blood urea nitrogen; IGF-1, insulin like growth factor 1.