TABLE 2.

Diet formulation and nutritional composition of experimental diets.

Ingredients (%)	Control	0.5AA	1AA
Corn	58.55	58.03	57.55
Soybean meal	22.00	22.00	22.00
Limestone a	9.34	9.34	9.34
Soybean oil	3.00	3.00	3.00
Distiller’s dried grains with soluble	2.50	2.50	2.50
Artemisia Annua	0.00	0.50	1.00
Glycine	1.74	1.68	1.68
Dicalcium phosphate	1.70	1.70	1.71
Salt	0.39	0.39	0.39
DL-methionine	0.33	0.40	0.39
Vitamin premix b	0.10	0.10	0.10
L-lysine	0.10	0.10	0.11
L-valine	0.09	0.09	0.10
L-threonine	0.08	0.09	0.10
Mineral mix c	0.075	0.075	0.075
Calculated nutritional composition
ME (kcal/kg)	2910	2910	2910
Crude protein (%)	16.70	16.69	16.69
Total calcium (%)	4.00	4.00	4.00
Available P (%)	0.45	0.45	0.45
dLys (%)	0.80	0.80	0.80
dMet (%)	0.54	0.54	0.57
dTSAA (%)	0.73	0.73	0.76
dThr (%)	0.56	0.56	0.56
dTrp	0.16	0.16	0.16
dArg	0.89	0.89	0.89
dVal	0.71	0.70	0.70
dILeu	0.59	0.59	0.59

^a The level of the fine and coarse limestone ratio was maintained at 50:50.

^b Vitamin mix provided the following in mg/100 g diet: folic acid, 7.5; riboflavin, 1.5; nicotinic acid amide, 15; vitamin B-12 (source concentration, 0.1%) pyridoxine-HCl, 1.2; d-biotin, 3; thiamine-HCl, 1.5; 2; d-calcium pantothenate 4; menadione sodium bisulfite, 1.98; cholecalciferol (5,000,000 IU/g), 0.09; α-tocopherol acetate (500,000 IU/g), 22.8; retinyl palmitate (500,000 IU/g), 2.8; ethoxyquin, 13.34; dextrose, 762.2; and I-inositol, 2.5.

^c Mineral mix provided the following in g/100 g diet: CaCO₃, 1.48; Ca(H₂PO₄)₂ H₂O, 3.62; Na₂SeO₄, 0.0002; KH₂PO₄, 1.00; FeSO₄ 7H₂O, 0.05; MnSO₄ H₂O, 0.035; KIO₃, 0.001; MgSO₄ 7H₂O, 0.62; CuSO₄·5H₂O, 0.008; NaCl, 0.60; ZnCO₃, 0.015; 0.0011; KCl, 0.10; and NaMoO₄·2H₂O, CoCl₂ 6H₂O, 0.00032.