Table 1.

Diet composition (as-fed basis)^*

Item:	Swine gestation diet
Ingredient, %
Corn	80.40
Soybean meal, 46.5% CP	15.60
Monocalcium phosphate, 21% P	1.40
Calcium carbonate	1.15
Salt	0.50
L-Thr	0.03
Trace mineral premix*	0.15
Sow add pack†	0.50
Vitamin premix‡	0.25
Phytase║	0.02
EO§	+/−
BA¶	+/−
Total	100
Calculated analysis, %
CP	14.1
Crude fiber	2.2
Ether extract	3.0
Ca	0.85
P	0.62
Available P	0.46

^*Each kilogram contains 26.4 g Mn, 110 g Fe, 110 g Zn, 11g Cu, 198 mg I, and 198 mg Se.

^†Each kilogram contains 110,000 mg choline, 44 mg biotin, 330 mg folic acid, and 990 mg pyridoxine.

^‡Each kilogram contains 4,400,000 IU vitamin A, 660,000 IU vitamin D3, 17,600 IU vitamin E, 1,760 mg menadione, 3,300 mg riboflavin, 11,000 mg pantothenic acid, 19,800 mg niacin, and 15.4 mg vitamin B12.

^║HiPhos 2700, DSM Nutritional Products, Parsippany, NJ.

^§EO product (DSM Nutritional Products, Parsippany, NJ) added to complete diet at 0.02% in appropriate treatments.

^¶BA product (DSM Nutritional Products, Parsippany, NJ) added to complete diet at 0.5% in appropriate treatments.