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. 2020 Jan 7;98(1):skz390. doi: 10.1093/jas/skz390

Table 2.

Ingredients and nutrient compositions of control basal diet used from lactation day 7 to weaning (as creep feed in mash form) and as prestarter diet (pelleted form) from weaning to postweaning day 7 (as-fed basis)

Item Creep feed/prestarter diet
Ingredient composition, %
 Maize + extruded barley 44.00
 Sweet milk whey 10.26
 Wheat 10.00
 Barley 15.00
 HP 300 5.00
 Maize flour 1.01
 Extruded soybean 5.13
 Soybean meal, 47% CP 5.00
 Plasma 1.50
 L-lysine 0.81
 Dicalcium phosphate 0.87
 Methionine 0.23
 Salt 0.25
 Threonine solid 0.21
 L-valine 0.09
 L-tryptophan 0.03
 Vit-min premix1 0.60
Calculated nutrient composition
 Net energy, kcal/kg 2,438
 CP, % 17.0
 Calcium, % 0.30
 Total phosphorus, % 0.40
 Dig. phosphorus, % 0.30
 SID lysine, % 1.11

1Supplied the following per kg of diet: vitamin A (retinyl acetate), 10,000 IU; vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), 2,000 IU; vitamin E (all-rac α-tocopheryl-acetate) 100 ppm; choline chloride, 187 ppm; iron (as iron sulphate monohydrate), 100 ppm; iodine (potassium iodide), 100 ppm; copper (as copper sulphate pentahydrate), 149 ppm; manganese (as manganese oxide), 58 ppm; zinc (as zinc oxide), 120 ppm; selenium (as sodium selenate), 0.30 ppm; selenomethionine (produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae), 0.1 ppm; butyl-hydroxytoluene (BHT), 63 ppm; citric acid, 8 ppm.