Table 1.

Ingredient and nutrient composition of control and supplemented broiler diets^a

Item	Starter (d 0 to 14)	Grower (d 14 to 28)	Finisher (d 28 to 42)
Ingredients, % (as-fed basis)
Maize	63.68	68.54	70.35
Soy hull	-	-	2.5
Soyabean meal	24.85	20.80	17.30
Meat and bone meal	8.6	7.6	6.9
Recycled veg oil-mixed	1.0	1.0	1.0
Limestone bag-tip	0.75	1.0	1.0
Sodium bicarbonate m	0.05	0.05	0.00
Salt-micro	0.20	0.20	0.25
Lysine HCl	0.247	0.221	0.140
DL-Methionine	-	0.204	0.180
Threonine	-	-	0.055
Vitamin premix	0.395	0.375	0.307
Calculated composition, % (as-fed basis)
Dry matter	88.62	88.50	88.45
Crude protein	22.03	20.06	18.50
Crude fibre	2.54	2.45	3.20
Crude fat	4.70	4.72	4.71
Metabolizable energy, MJ/kg	12.85	13.00	12.81
L-Lysine	1.30	1.15	1.00
Methionine	0.61	0.56	0.50
Tryptophan	0.23	0.21	0.19
Calcium	1.47	1.43	1.35
Phosphorus	0.90	0.83	0.78

^aControl diet consisted of a standard broiler feed. Supplemented feed consisted of the control diet described in the table supplemented with 0.5% of xylo-oligosaccharides and 1% arabinoxylan-rich fraction