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Table 1 The nutritional composition of the commercial feeds fed to the pregnant and lactating gilts.

From: Glutamine and glutamate supplementation raise milk glutamine concentrations in lactating gilts

Ingredients

Gestation feed

Lactation feed

Main ingredients, kg

  

   Corn (grain)

534.0

574.0

   Wheat middlings

320.0

40.0

   Soybean meal

81.0

132.0

   Extruded full-fat soybeans

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186.0

   Meat meal

50.0

12.0

   Sugar

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20.0

   Salt

5.0

5.0

   Limestone 38%

4.0

9.0

   Dicalcium phosphate

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16.0

   Microingredients

  

   Trace mineral premix

0.5

0.5

   Chromium

1.0

1.0

   DL-Methionine 98%

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0.198

   L-Lysine 80%

0.381

0.356

   Penicillin 98%

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0.2

   Breeding premix

4.0

4.0

Total, kg

1,000.0

1,000.0

Nutrients

  

   Crude protein, %

15.48

19.0

   Crude fiber, %

4.66

3.65

   Ashes, %

5.28

6.14

   Calcium, %

0.8

0.96

   Total phosphorus, %

0.72

0.71

   Metabolizable energy, kcal/kg

2,900.5

3,348.3

  1. Source: Nutron Alimentos LTDA (Brazil)