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Table 1 Ingredients and nutrient composition of the basal diet for piglets (as-fed basis) (Exp. 1 and Exp. 2)

From: Dietary seaweed-derived polysaccharides improve growth performance of weaned pigs through maintaining intestinal barrier function and modulating gut microbial populations

Ingredients

%

Nutrient composition

 

Extruded corn

48.50

Calculated composition

 

Soybean meal

11.00

Digestible energy, MJ/kg

14.82

Extruded soybean

10.00

Crude protein, %

19.64

Broken rice

9.00

Calcium, %

0.81

Flour

8.00

Total phosphorus, %

0.60

Whey powder

6.00

Available phosphorus, %

0.41

Soybean oil

1.05

Lysine, %

1.43

Fish meal

2.50

Methionine, %

0.54

Limestone

1.00

Methionine and cystine, %

0.83

Dicalcium phosphate

0.90

Threonine, %

0.98

NaCl

0.30

Tryptophan, %

0.20

L-Lysine HCl, 78%

0.60

Analysed composition

 

DL-Methionine, 99%

0.26

Crude protein, %

18.69

L-Threonine, 98.5%

0.34

Calcium, %

0.78

Choline chloride

0.10

Total phosphorus, %

0.61

Vitamin premixa

0.05

  

Mineral premixb

0.40

  

Total

100

  
  1. a Provided the following per kilogram of diet: vitamin A, 6000 IU; vitamin D3, 480 IU; vitamin E, 40 IU; vitamin K3, 1.5 mg; thiamin, 3 mg; riboflavin, 6.4 mg; pyridoxine, 2.4 mg; vitamin B12, 0.04 mg; pantothenic acid, 10 mg; niacin, 14 mg; biotin, 0.15 mg; folic acid, 0.2 mg
  2. b Provided the following per kilogram of diet: Fe (as ferrous sulfate), 120 mg; Cu (as copper sulfate), 80 mg; Mn (as manganese sulfate), 60 mg; Zn (as zinc sulfate), 120 mg; I (as potassium iodide), 0.3 mg; Se (as sodium selenite), 0.35 mg