Table 4 Ingredients and chemical composition of the basal diet.

From: Use of recombinant porcine β-defensin 2 as a medicated feed additive for weaned piglets

Ingredients

%

Nutrient composition

%

Maize

59.37

Crude protein

19.19

Soybean meal

25.00

Calcium

0.583

Fishmeal

4.00

P

0.464

Dried whey power

4.00

Lysine

1.198

Cream from bovine milk

5.00

Methionine

0.397

Limestone

0.30

Threonine

0.850

Monocalcium phosphate

1.10

Digestible energy/kg feed

14.3 MJ

Anti-mould agent

0.10

NA

NA

Antioxidant

0.02

NA

NA

Vitamin premix*

0.04

NA

NA

Trace mineral premix#

0.30

NA

NA

Salt

0.30

NA

NA

Flavour

0.06

NA

NA

L-lysine-HCl

0.23

NA

NA

L-methionine

0.05

NA

NA

L-threonine

0.05

NA

NA

  1. *Vitamin premix consisted of the following ingredients per kilogram of complete diet: 11,000 IU (3,300 μg) vitamin A, 1,100 IU (27.5 μg) vitamin D3, 22 IU (14.67 μg) vitamin E, 4 mg menadione as dimethylpyrimidinol bisulfite, 0.03 mg vitamin B12, 28 mg d-pantothenic acid, 33 mg niacin and 0.08% choline chloride.
  2. #Trace mineral premix consisted of the following ingredients per kilogram of complete diet: 165 mg Zn (ZnSO4), 165 mg Fe (FeSO4), 33 mg Mn (MnSO4), 16.5 mg Cu (CuSO4), 297 μg I (CaI2) and 297 μg Se (Na2SeO3);
  3. Digestible energy was based on calculated values. NA: not applicable.