Effects of dietary Selenomethionine supplementation on growth performance, antioxidant status, plasma selenium concentration, and immune function in weaning pigs

Table 1 Ingredients and nutrient content of the basal diet (%, as-fed basis)

Ingredients	%	Nutrient content²	%
Corn	58.56	Digestible energy, kcal/kg	3492.98
Soybean meal (46% CP)	14.00	Crude protein	18.87
Soybean oil	1.60	Calcium	0.70
Extruded-soybean	12.00	ATTDP ³	0.29
Fish meal	3.45	Lysine	1.40
Whey powder (12% CP)	7.00	Methionine	0.48
Calcium hydrophosphate	1.08	Methionine + cysteine	0.79
Limestone	0.60	Threonine	0.88
Sodium chloride	0.32	Se, mg/kg	0.06
L-Lysine hydrochloride	0.43
Threonine	0.12
DL-Methionine (99%)	0.14
Choline chloride (50%)	0.20
Vitamin-mineral premix¹	0.50
Total	100.00

¹Provided per kilogram of diet: vitamin A 11,000 IU, vitamin D₃ 1,500 IU, vitamin E 44.1 IU, vitamin K₃ 4.0 mg, vitamin B₁ 1.4 mg, vitamin B₂ 5.22 mg, vitamin B₅ 20.0 mg, vitamin B₁₂ 0.01 mg, niacin 26.0 mg, pantothenic acid 14 mg, folic acid 0.8 mg, biotin 44 μg, Fe 100.0 mg, Cu 16.50 mg, Zn 90.0 mg, Mn 35.0 mg, I 0.30 mg.
²Crude protein and calcium were measured value, others were calculated.
³ATTDP: apparent total tract digestible phosphorus.

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