Immune Response of Piglets Receiving Mixture of Formic and Propionic Acid Alone or with Either Capric Acid or Bacillus Licheniformis after Escherichia coli Challenge

Table 1

Compositions of basal diet and nutrient profile, as-fed basal.

Ingredient composition	Content (%)	Calculated nutrient profile	Content
Corn	47.25	Digestible energy (MJ/kg)	15.05
Wheat powder	7.50	CP (%)	19.20
Whey	7.50	Crude fat (%)	8.03
Sucrose	2.50	Crude fiber (%)	1.76
Glucose	1.25	Ash (%)	3.01
Soybean Meal	8.50	Calcium (%)	0.77
Extruded soybean	10.00	Phosphorus (%)	0.53
Fish meal	7.00	Available phosphorus (%)	0.34
Soybean oil	2.00	Lysine (%)	1.35
Yeast extract	2.50	Methionine+ Cysteine (%)	0.74
Choline chloride (50%)	0.10	Threonine (%)	0.79
Calcium hydrophosphate	0.38	Tryptophan (%)	0.22
Limestone	0.8
Salt	0.30
L-Lysine HCl	0.50
DL-Methionine	0.22
L-Threonine	0.25
L-Tryptophan	0.02
L-Valine	0.1
Vitamin premix^1	0.035
Mineral premix^2	0.23
Unite bran	1.065
Total	100.00

Supplied per kilogram of diet: 11375 IU of vitamin A, 3500 IU of vitamin D₃, 26.3 IU of vitamin E, 3.5 mg of vitamin of K₃, 3.5 mg of vitamin B₁, 8.8 mg of riboflavin, 5.4 mg of vitamin B₆, 0.03 mg of vitamin B₁₂, 17.5 mg of pantothenic acid, and 35.0 mg of niacin; 1.75 mg of folacin and 0.14 mg of biotin.
²Supplied per kilogram of diet: 64.4mg of Cu (cupric glycinate), 165.4mg of Fe (iron glycine), 47.8 mg of Mn (manganese glycinate), 47.8mg of Zn (zinc glycinate), 0.54 mg of Se (yeast selenium), 0.68 mg of I (calcium iodate), and 0.1 mg of Co (cobaltous sulfate).