TABLE 3.

Ingredient composition and nutrient content of the corn-soybean diets used on as-is basis.

Item	Starter control diet	Grower control diet	Finisher control diet
Ingredients (%)
Corn	51.85	57.85	59.68
Soybean meal	37.66	31.62	27.23
DDGS 8.1% EE	4.00	4.00	6.00
Poultry fat	3.24	3.44	4.38
Limestone	1.08	1.06	1.03
Dicalcium phosphate	1.01	0.88	0.64
Salt	0.35	0.35	0.31
DL-methionine	0.29	0.25	0.22
L-lysine HCl	0.12	0.13	0.12
Mineral premix a	0.10	0.10	0.10
Vitamin premix b	0.10	0.10	0.10
L-threonine	0.08	0.09	0.09
Choline chloride	0.06	0.06	0.05
Sodium bicarbonate	0.04	0.05	0.03
Antioxidant c	0.02	0.02	0.02
Calculated analysis
ME (kcal/kg)	3,015.00	3,090.00	3,175.00
Ether extract (%)	5.88	6.20	7.28
Crude protein (%)	22.30	20.00	18.70
Lysine (%)	1.18	1.05	0.95
Methionine (%)	0.59	0.53	0.48
Threonine (%)	0.77	0.69	0.65
Tryptophan (%)	0.25	0.22	0.20
Total calcium (%)	0.90	0.84	0.76
Total phosphorous (%)	0.63	0.58	0.53
Available phosphorus (%)	0.45	0.42	0.38
Sodium (%)	0.20	0.20	0.18
Potassium (%)	1.06	0.94	0.87
Chloride (%)	0.27	0.28	0.25
Magnesium (%)	0.19	0.18	0.17
Copper (%)	19.20	18.46	18.85
Selenium (%)	0.28	0.27	0.26
Linoleic acid (%)	1.01	1.13	1.16

^a Mineral premix supplied the following per kg: manganese, 120 g; zinc, 100g; iron, 120 g; copper, 10–15 g; iodine, 0.7 g; selenium, 0.4 g; and cobalt, 0.2 g (Nutra Blend LLC, Neosho, MO, 64850).

^b Vitamin premix supplied the following per kg: vitamin A, 20,000,000 IU; vitamin D3, 6,000,000 IU; vitamin E, 75,000 IU; vitamin K3, 9 g; thiamine, 3 g; riboflavin, 8 g; pantothenic acid, 18 g; niacin, 60 g; pyridoxine, 5 g; folic acid, 2 g; biotin, 0.2 g; cyanocobalamin, 16 mg; and ascorbic acid, 200 g (Nutra Blend LLC, Neosho, MO, 64850).

^c Ethoxyquin.