Table 6.

Chemical analysis of complete diets, Exp. 2 (as-fed basis)¹

Added Cu,2 mg/kg:	0		150
SID lysine,3 %:	92.5	100.0	92.5	100.0
Total Cu, mg/kg
Phase 1	37	31	249	201
Phase 2	31	28	272	214
Phase 3	38	42	246	210
Phase 4	34	32	246	219
Phase 54	—	—	—	—
Amino acids and CP, %
Phase 1
CP	19.70	20.96	19.82	20.49
Lys	1.10	1.20	1.12	1.21
Met + Cys	0.69	0.74	0.70	0.73
Thr	0.74	0.77	0.75	0.79
Trp	0.22	0.23	0.22	0.23
Val	0.91	0.96	0.91	0.93
Phase 2
CP	18.30	19.38	17.34	19.34
Lys	1.07	1.03	0.94	1.02
Met + Cys	0.68	0.70	0.64	0.68
Thr	0.70	0.77	0.65	0.69
Trp	0.19	0.19	0.18	0.20
Val	0.86	0.90	0.81	0.85
Phase 3
CP	16.41	17.46	16.07	16.20
Lys	0.83	0.97	0.85	0.87
Met + Cys	0.59	0.60	0.59	0.61
Thr	0.58	0.62	0.57	0.60
Trp	0.17	0.18	0.16	0.17
Val	0.74	0.79	0.75	0.77
Phase 4
CP	15.50	15.64	15.65	15.73
Lys	0.72	0.82	0.81	0.83
Met + Cys	0.60	0.60	0.61	0.62
Thr	0.57	0.57	0.59	0.59
Trp	0.34	0.34	0.34	0.37
Val	0.16	0.16	0.16	0.16
Phase 54	—	—	—	—

¹Values represent means from one composite sample, analyzed in duplicate.

²Tribasic copper chloride (Intellibond C; Micronutrients, Inc.).

³Standardized ileal digestible (SID) lysine values are expressed as the percentage of estimated SID Lys requirement finishing pigs within this production system.

⁴Phase 5 diets were not available for analysis.