Table 2.
Ingredient composition and calculated nutrient content of basal diet ( % Dry matter).
| Chicks (1 – 6 weeks) |
Young laying hens (6 – 20 weeks) |
Laying hens in the peak period (>20 weeks) |
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| Ingredient | Content ( %) | Nutrient | % | Ingredient | content ( %) | Nutrient | % | Ingredient | content ( %) | Nutrient | % |
| Corn | 59.77 | Metabolizable energy (ME) | 12.10MJ/kg | Corn | 63.00 | Metabolizable energy | 11.80MJ/kg | Corn | 62.70 | Metabolizable energy | 11.09MJ/kg |
| Soybean meal | 33.7 | Crude protein | 19.50 | soybean meal | 23.00 | Crude protein | 15.49 | Soybean meal | 26.30 | Calcium | 3.50 |
| Soybean oil | 2.4 | Calcium | 0.95 | Soybean oil | 3.0 | Calcium | 0.81 | Table salt | 0.30 | Crude protein | 16.61 |
| Stone powder | 1.3 | Available phosphorous | 0.4 | Chaff | 6.80 | Available phosphorous | 0.67 | Calcium bicarbonate | 8.50 | Non-phytate phosphorus | 0.35 |
| Sodium chloride | 0.25 | Available phosphorous | 0.4 | sodium chloride | 0.20 | Lysine | 0.73 | Calcium bicarbonate | 1.00 | Digestible lysine | 0.85 |
| 50 % choline chloride | 0.1 | Calcium hydrogen phosphate | 3.00 | Methionine+cysteine | 0.64 | DL-Methionine | 0.10 | Digestible methionine | 0.35 | ||
| Calcium hydrogen phosphate | 1.3 | Premix2 | 1.00 | Choline chloride | 0.10 | ||||||
| Methionine | 0.18 | Total | 100 | Premix3 | 1.00 | ||||||
| 1 % premix1 | 1 | Total | 100 | ||||||||
| Total | 100 | ||||||||||
Vitamin premix1supplied (per kg of diet: Vitamin A,9500 IU; Vitamin D3,4560 IU; Vitamin E,38 mg; Vitamin K3,3.8 mg; Vitamin B1,4 mg; Vitamin B2,7.0 mg; Vitamin B6,6.5 mg; Vitamin B12,0.03 mg; Folic acid,1.8 mg; Biotin,0.32 mg; Nicotinamide,50 mg; Cu,10 mg; Fe,65 mg; Zn,95 mg; Mn,100 mg; I,1 mg; Se,0.3 mg.
Vitamin premix2 supplied (per kg of diet): Vitamin A, 12000 IU; Vitamin D3, 3000 IU, Vitamin E,24 mg, vitamin K3,3 mg, Vitamin B1,12.4 mg; Niacin, 45 mg; D-pantothenic acid,12 mg; Vitamin B6, 3.6 mg; D-biotin, 0.09 mg; folate 1.2 mg; VB12,15 ug; Fe, 80 mg; Cu, 8 mg; Mu, 90 mg; Zn, 85 mg; I, 0.8 mg; Se, 0.3 mg; 98 % L-lysine, 204 mg; 50 % cholinesterase, 2.6 g; phytase, 0.1 g. Vitamin premix3supplied (per kg of diet): Vitamin A,10000 IU; Vitamin D3,3000 IU, Vitamin E,20 mg, Vitamin B12,5 mg; Vitamin K,3.2 mg; Folic acid,1.5 mg; Biotin, 2 mg; Pyridoxine, 8 mg; Nicotinic acid, 32.5 mg; Choline, 500 mg; Calcium pantothenate, 40 mg; Riboflavin, 8 mg; Thiamine, 1 mg; Zn, 80 mg; Fe, 80 mg; Mn, 70 mg; I,1 mg; Cu, 8 mg; Se, 0.3 mg.