Fibre supply for breeding sows and its effects on social behaviour in group-housed sows and performance during lactation

Table 1 Overview of the feeding mixture

Feed components	CG (%)	FG (%)
Alfalfa	–	15.0
Sugar beet pulp	15.0	21.5
Brewer’s yeast	2.0	–
linseed expeller	2.0	–
Grape pomace	–	7.0
Malt germs	–	3.0
Lignocellulose	–	5.0
Rapeseed meal	–	10.0
Soybean hulls	–	7.0
Soybean meal	25.0	20.1
Vegetable oil	1.0	1.0
Wheat middlings	5.0	–
Wheat bran	42.6	–
Minerals, vitamins and amino acids^a	7.4	10.4

Vitamin Premix 1% (supplied the following per kg of diet: 8850.00 IU of vitamin A, 900.00 IU of vitamin D3, 672 IU of vitamin D 25-hydroxycholecalciferol, 99 mg of vitamin E, 1.88 mg of vitamin B1, 6.50 mg of vitamin B2, 5.38 mg of vitamin B6, 29.75 mg of vitamin B12, 1.07 mg of vitamin K3, 37.50 mg of niacin_amide acid, 16.25 mg of calcium-D-pantothenic acid, 691.24 mg of choline chloride, 0.04 mg of biotin, 2.70 mg of folic acid, 150 mg of Fe, 13.50 mg of Cu, 1.35 mg of I, 67.50 mg of Mn, 100 mg of Zn, 0.30 mg of Se)
^a5.0% of calcium carbonate, 1.0% of monocalcium phosphate, 1.0% of sodium chloride, 1% of beet molasses, 0.54% of lysin (HCl), 0.35% of L-threonine, 0.05% of methionine-hydroxy analog

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