Table 1.
Diet components, dry matter (DM), calculated crude nutrient composition, and metabolizable energy (ME), classified according to age of pigs
| Age (day) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28–41 | 42–79 | 80–130 | 80–100 (R pigs) | |
| Diet components (weight % of daily food allowance) | ||||
| Starter feeda | 50 | 46.5 | – | – |
| Grower feedb | – | – | 68.5 | 100 (= 825 g/day) |
| Oat flakesc | 30 | 33.8 | 20.7 | – |
| Sucrosed | 20 | 19.7 | 10.8 | – |
| DM (%) | 98 | 98 | 98 | 98 |
| Crude nutrients (g/kg) | ||||
| Crude ash | 35 | 34 | 44 | 57 |
| Crude protein | 162 | 159 | 165 | 197 |
| Crude fat | 94 | 92 | 38 | 32 |
| Carbohydrates | 604 | 612 | 641 | 576 |
| Crude fiber | 16 | 16 | 39 | 51 |
| Starch | 314 | 330 | 440 | 447 |
| Sugar | 278 | 270 | 148 | 57 |
| MEe (MJ/kg DM) | 16.9 | 16.9 | 15.2 | 14.7 |
a‘Baby Crisb,’ Bergophor, Hohburg Mineralfutter GmbH, Hohburg, Germany
b‘Vormast CaFo TOP,’ Trede und von Pein GmbH, Itzehoe, Germany; during food restriction diet was devoid of sugar and oat flakes
cHolstenmühle W. Smidt & Co. KG, Lübeck, Germany
d Nordzucker, Braunschweig, Germany
eCalculated according to GfE (2008): ME (MJ/kg DM) = 0.021503 × crude protein (g/kg DM) + 0.032497 × crude fat (g/kg DM) – 0.021071 × crude fiber (g/kg DM) + 0.016309 × starch (g/kg DM) + 0.014701 × organic residue (g/kg DM)