Table 1.

Composition of the basal diet fed to finishing pigs (as-fed basis)

Item	Content
Ingredient
Corn	68.7
Soybean	22.1
Wheat middlings	6.0
Monocalcium phosphate	0.7
Limestone, ground	1.0
Salt	0.4
L-Lys.HCl	0.1
Trace-mineral premixa	0.5
Vitamin premixb	0.5
Calculated chemical composition
DE, MJ/kg	13.40
CP, %	16.00
Ca, %	0.62
P, total, %	0.49
P, available, %	0.25
Lys, %	0.85
Methinone, %	0.24
Met + Cys, %	0.50
Thr, %	0.60
Trp, %	0.18

^asupplied per kilogram of diet: 12 mg of Cu (sulfate), 150 mg of Zn (zinc oxide); 120 mg of Fe (iron sulfate monohydrate), 0.7 mg of I (calcium iodate); 45 mg of Mn (manganous oxide), and 0.3 mg of Se (sodium selenite)

^bsupplied per kilogram of diet: 4,950 IU of vitamin A (acetate), 660 IU of vitamin D₃, 4.8 mg of vitamin K (menadione sodium bisulfate complex), 2.36 mg of Vitamin E, 16.5 mg of D-pantothenic acid, 6.0 mg of riboflavin, 33.0 mg of niacin, 24.5 μg of vitamin B₁₂, and 3.3 mg of vitamin B₆