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. 2019 Feb 16;97(4):1671–1678. doi: 10.1093/jas/skz060

Table 1.

Composition (as-fed) of gestation and lactation diets1

Item Gestation Lactation
Ingredients (%)
 Corn 54.52 54.805
 Soybean meal, 48% 9.50 28.00
 Dried distillers grains with solubles 30.00 10.00
 Fat (yellow grease) 1.00 2.00
 Dicalcium phosphate 1.875 2.40
 Limestone 1.175 0.75
 Salt 0.45 0.50
l-Lysine 0.15 0.175
l-Threonine 0.00 0.04
 Potassium magnesium sulfate2 0.65 0.65
 Sow add pack3 0.25 0.25
 Vitamin premix4 0.25 0.25
 Mineral premix5 0.15 0.15
 Ethoxyquin6 0.03 0.03
Calculated composition7
 ME, kcal/kg 3296 3328
 CP, % 17.07 20.67
 SID Lys, % 0.652 1.065
 Available P, % 0.544 0.547
 Ca, % 0.952 0.956
 SID Met+Cys:Lys 81 56
 SID Thr:Lys 73 64
 SID Trp:Lys 19 19
 SID Ile:Lys 80 69
 SID Val:Lys 100 78

1Control diets for gestation and lactation. For the S1 (0.1%) and S2 (0.2%) diets P. guilliermondii was added at the expense of corn.

2Dynamate, Mosaic Feed Ingredients, Plymouth, MN.

3The sow add pack provided the following per kg of complete diet: 22.05 IU of vitamin E, 551.15 mg of choline, 1.65 mg of folic acid, 4.96 mg of vitamin B6, 0.22 mg of biotin, and 0.20 mg of chromium.

4The vitamin premix provided the following per kg of complete diet: 397.5 mg of Ca, 11,022.9 IU of vitamin A, 1,377.9 IU of vitamin D3, 44.09 IU of vitamin E, 0.0386 mg vitamin B12, 4.41 mg of menadione, 8.27 mg of riboflavin, 27.56 mg of D-pantothenic acid, and 49.6 mg of niacin.

5The mineral premix provided the following per kg of complete diet: 84 mg of Ca, 165 mg of Fe, 165 mg of Zn, 39.6 mg of Mn, 16.5 mg of Cu, 0.3 mg of I, and 0.3 mg of Se.

6Quinguard, Novus International, Inc., St. Louis, MO.

7ME = metabolizable energy; CP = crude protein; SID = standard ileal digestible.