Table 1.
Composition and nutritive value of basal diets
| Content (%) | |
| Ingredients | |
| Corn meal | 34.0 |
| Soybean meal | 25.0 |
| Wheat starch | 25.0 |
| Wheat bran | 5.0 |
| Fish meal | 5.0 |
| Brewers dried yeast | 1.0 |
| Salt | 1.0 |
| Soybean oil | 1.5 |
| Mineral mixture1 | 1.5 |
| Vitamin mixture2 | 1.0 |
| Proximate composition | |
| Crude protein | 21.4 |
| Crude fat | 4.2 |
| Crude fibre | 5.0 |
| Crude ash | 3.2 |
| Calcium | 1.2 |
| Phosphorus |
0.9 |
| Gross energy (kJ/kg) | 1 676.2 |
1
Contained per kg diet: Cu 10 mg, Zn 30 mg, Fe 120 mg, Mn 75 mg, Se 0.1 mg, I 0.5 mg;
2
Contained per kg diet: VA 14 000 IU, VD 1 500 IU, VE 120 IU, VK 5 mg, VB1 13 mg, VB2 12 mg, Niacin 60 mg, D-pantothenic acid 24 mg