Table 3.
Ingredients and Chemical Composition of the Basal Diet (CT) of post-weaning piglets. Seaweed powder (SW) was added to the basal diet at 4 g/kg feed rate.
| Item | Post-Weaning Basal Diet |
|---|---|
| Ingredients (g/kg as fed basis) | |
| Barley | 220.0 |
| Wheat | 161.7 |
| Soy protein concentrate (Soicomil R) | 98.0 |
| Wheat, flaked | 80.0 |
| Corn | 80.0 |
| Corn, flaked | 60.0 |
| Soybean, meal | 59.0 |
| Biscuits | 50.0 |
| Whey | 50.0 |
| Dextrose, mono | 40.0 |
| Barley, flaked | 40.0 |
| Soybean oil | 20.0 |
| Dicalcium phosphate | 10.0 |
| Cocoa oil | 10.0 |
| L-Lysine | 6.0 |
| DL-Methionine | 3.6 |
| L-Threonine | 3.5 |
| Sodium chloride | 2.7 |
| Vitamin + trace elements | 2.5 |
| L-Valine (96.5%) | 2.2 |
| L-Tryptophan | 0.8 |
| Composition (%, DM) | |
| Dry matter (DM) | 89.60 |
| Crude protein | 20.10 |
| Crude fat | 5.68 |
| Fiber | 3.29 |
| Neutral detergent fiber (NDF) | 12.91 |
| Acid detergent fiber (ADF) | 4.67 |
| Acid detergent lignin (ADL) | 0.97 |
| Lysine (Lys), total | 1.57 |
| Cystine | 0.32 |
| Methionine (Met), total | 0.66 |
| Threonine, total | 1.09 |
| Tryptophan, total | 0.32 |
| Valine | 1.08 |
| Phenylalanine | 0.85 |
| Tyrosine | 0.55 |
| Isoleucine | 0.74 |
| Leucine | 0.32 |
| Net energy (NE, Mcal/kg) | 2.90 |