Effects of dietary valine supplementation during late gestation on the reproductive performance and mammary gland development of gilts

Table 1 Ingredients and nutrient content of diets (as fed basis)

Ingredients	Proportion, %
Corn	71.44
Peanut meal (exp.), 45% crude protein	12.00
Soybean hulls	12.00
Lys·HCl (78.8%)	0.52
Met (98.5%)	0.05
Trp (98%)	0.05
Thr (98%)	0.25
Salt	0.50
Limestone	1.35
Dicalcium phosphate	1.55
Choline chloride	0.15
Vitamin and mineral premix ^a	0.24
Chemical composition
Digestible energy (DE) ^c, MJ/kg	13.05
Crude protein (CP) ^b, %	13.60
Lysine ^b, %	0.85
Met + Cys ^b, %	0.45
Val ^b, %	0.54
Leu ^b, %	0.88
Ile ^b, %	0.30
Ca ^c, %	0.92
Av. P ^c, %	0.38

^a Provided per kg of diet: 9600 IU vitamin A; 1500 IU vitamin D₃; 52.2 IU vitamin E, 2.9 mg vitamin K₃; 1.5 mg vitamin B₁; 6.02 mg vitamin B₂; 5.25 mg vitamin B₆; 0.02 mg vitamin B₁₂; 21.5 mg niacin; 30 mg calcium pantothenate; 3.42 mg folic acid; 0.45 mg biotin; 48 mg manganese (MnSO₄); 132 mg iron (FeSO₄); 120 mg zinc (ZnSO₄); 12 mg copper (CuSO₄); 0.6 mg iodine (CaI₂O₆) and 0.3 mg selenium (Na₂SeO₃)
^b Analyzed values
^c Calculated values

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