The natural diet composition of young piglets suggests an overlook of fibre and food structure in farmed suckling piglets

Table 1 Composition of creep feed applied in the farmed piglets from 2 weeks prior to weaning (d 26)

Ingredient	Creep feed
Composition, g/kg as-fed basis
Basal diet¹	850
Corn starch, heat-treated	150
Total	1000
Calculated nutrients, g/kg as-fed basis
Moisture	99.8
Crude protein	170
Crude fat	52
Ash	49
Total dietary fibre²	120
Soluble dietary fibre²	18
Insoluble dietary fibre²	102
Lactose	50
Calcium	6.0
Phosphorus	5.8
ME, MJ	13.38
NE, MJ	10.38

ME = metabolic energy; NE = net energy
¹Basal diet consisted of wheat, barley (58.0%), extruded cereals (7.1%); soybean products (12.0%), including extruded soybean meal (Forcital, Trouw Nutrition, Ghent, Belgium); dairy whey products (6.0%); fats and oils (3.6%); vitamin and minerals (3.2%); sucrose and palatability enhancers (2.5%); wheat protein (2.4%); potato protein (2.4%); synthetic amino acids (2.1%) and organic acids as feed preservatives (0.8%). Vitamins and minerals provided per kilogram total feed: 9,169 IU vitamin A, 2,002 IU vitamin D3, 150 IU vitamin E-acetate, 1.5 mg menadione, 1.6 mg thiamine mononitrate, 4.3 mg riboflavin, 1.9 mg pyridoxine, 30.0 μg cyanocobalamine, 22.4 mg niacin, 12.0 mg calcium D-pantothenate, 683 μg folic acid, 43 μg biotin, 113.7 mg choline chloride, 50.1 mg betaine, 216.8 mg iron, 1.1 mg iodine, 144.2 mg copper, 52.0 mg manganese, 125.6 mg zinc, 0.35 mg selenite
²Analyzed content by AOAC 991.43

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