TABLE 1.
Nutrient composition of sow diets for depleting VA stores
| Ingredient | Feed, g/kg |
| Wheat grain | 794 |
| Soybean meal, 48% crude protein | 126 |
| Dicalcium phosphate | 17.0 |
| Limestone, ground | 8.0 |
| Fat1 | 30.0 |
| Iodized sodium chloride | 5.0 |
| UW vitamin and mineral mix2 | 20.0 |
1
MaxFat (Maxco, Green Bay, WI), a blend of animal and vegetable fats.
2
A vitamin and mineral premix was developed that consisted of 62% wheat, 10% Vitamin Mix (Teklad, Madison, WI) (in g/kg Vitamin Mix: cholecalciferol, 0.26; dl-α-tocopheryl acetate, 72.0; vitamin B complex, 5.40; biotin, 7.50; folic acid 0.50; niacin, 5.53; pantothenic acid, 12.87; riboflavin, 7.84; vitamin B-12, 13.64; corn, 874.5), 13% choline, and 15% UW Mineral Mix (Mineral Mix resulted in the following minerals in mg/kg final feed: iron, 61; selenium, 0.3; zinc, 48; iodine 7.7; copper, 18).