Table 3.

Milk composition of lactating sows

	Treatment
Item	CON	DLM	HMTBA	Pooled SEM
Postpartum d0
Milk fat	6.07	6.28	5.76	1.02
Milk protein	7.79	7.75	7.55	1.14
Solid-not-fat	20.52	20.70	22.20	2.72
Postpartum d7
Milk fat	7.23ab	6.66b	7.88a	0.57
Milk protein	3.89	3.79	3.99	0.12
Solid-not-fat	10.41	10.17	10.70	0.34

Control (CON), DL-methionine (DLM), DL-2-hydroxy-4-methylthiobutanoic acid diets (HMTBA). ^{a, b}Within a row, means without a common superscript differ (P < 0.05)