Table 1.

The composition of the basal diet of Brown Nick cross laying hens.

Ingredients	Content (%)	Parameter	Nutritional Value (%)
Wheat	40.9	Metabolic energy (kcal/100 g)	250
Barley	8.5	Crude protein	16.41
Peas	9.0	Crude fiber	5.69
Oats (contain few hulls and therefore, less fiber content)	9.0	Crude fat	3.30
Soybean meal	4.0	Linoleic acid	1.78
Sunflower meal	15.5	Lysine	0.79
Sunflower oil	1.6	Methionine	0.41
Lysine hydrochloride 98%	0.21	Methionine + cystine	0.66
DL-methionine 98.5%	0.15	Tryptophan	0.19
Sodium chloride	0.20	Calcium	3.46
Monocalciumphosphate	1.0	Assimilable phosphorus	0.37
Limestone powder	8.8	Sodium	0.15
Sodium sulfate anhydrous	0.14	Chlorine	0.21
Vitamin-trace mineral premixes	1.0	DEB (mgEq/100 g)	15.32

DEB (mgEq/100 g) = dietary electrolyte balance (mg equivalent in 100 g of diet). Note: Vitamin and mineral premixes (per kg of diet): vitamin A—1200 thousand ME/kg; vitamin D—300 _Tыc. ME/kg; vitamin E—2000 mg/kg; vitamin K—200 mg/kg; vitamin B₁—200 mg/kg; vitamin B₂—600 mg/kg; vitamin B₃ (niacin)—2000 mg/kg; vitamin B₄—50,000 mg/kg; vitamin B₅ (pantothenic acid)—2000 mg/kg; vitamin B₆—400 mg/kg; vitamin B₁₂—2.5 mg/kg; vitamin Bc—100 mg/kg; vitamin C—5000 mg/kg; vitamin H (biotin)—15 mg/kg; Fe—2500 mg/kg; Cu—250 mg/kg; Zn—7000 mg/kg; Mn—10,000 mg/kg; Co—100 mg/kg; I—70 mg/kg; Se—20 mg/kg.