Table 1 Composition of experimental diets for growing-finishing pigs (as-fed basis)

Item	Experimental diets
	Growing		Finishing
	PC	NC	PC	NC
Ingredients (%)
Corn (8%)	46.34	46.58	49.62	54.80
Soybean meal (44%)	18.00	17.70	10.30	9.30
Wheat (10%)	14.60	15.00	15.60	11.00
DDGS	9.70	11.10	14.30	15.60
Rapeseed meal	4.00	4.10	5.50	5.60
Full fat soya	2.70	0.50	1.00	0.60
Tallow	1.20	1.50	0.80	0.70
Mono-dicalcium phosphate	0.90	0.90	0.47	0.49
Limestone	1.20	1.30	1.30	1.30
Salt	0.36	0.35	0.28	0.27
Vitamin-mineral premix1)	0.30	0.30	0.30	0.30
L-Lysine-HCl	0.40	0.40	0.36	0.35
DL-Methionine	0.13	0.12	0.05	0.03
L-Threonine	0.14	0.12	0.11	0.09
L-Tryptophan	0.03	0.03	0.01	0.01
Total	100	100	100	100
Calculated composition
Metabolizable energy (Mcal/kg)	3.21	3.21	3.16	3.16
Crude protein (%)	18.43	17.93	16.53	16.18
Lysine (%)	1.15	1.10	0.94	0.90
Methionine (%)	0.43	0.41	0.33	0.31
Cysteine (%)	0.29	0.27	0.28	0.26
Ca (%)	0.76	0.76	0.72	0.72
P (%)	0.58	0.58	0.53	0.53

Provided per kilogram of diet: vitamin A, 12,000 IU; vitamin D₃, 2,500 IU; vitamin E, 30 IU; vitamin K₃, 3 mg; D-pantothenic acid, 15 mg; nicotinic acid, 40 mg; choline, 400 mg; and vitamin B₁₂, 12 μg; Fe, 90 mg from iron sulfate; Cu, 8.8 mg from copper sulfate; Zn, 100 mg from zinc oxide; Mn, 54 mg from manganese oxide; I, 0.35 mg from potassium iodide; Se, 0.30 mg from sodium selenite.
PC, positive control; NC, negative control.