Table 1.
Formulation of the animal diets used in this study
| Fraction | 8604 |
AIN-76 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingredient(s) | kcal g−1 | Energy (%) | Ingredient(s) | kcal g−1 | Energy (%) | |
| Carbohydrate | Flaked corn, ground corn, wheat middling, cane molasses, ground wheat | 1.608 | 54 | Sucrose, dextrin, cellulose | 2.656 | 69.2 |
| Protein | Dehulled soybean meal, fish meal, dried whey | 0.972 | 32 | Casein, dl-methionine | 0.728 | 19 |
| Lipid | Soybean oil | 0.423 | 14 | Corn oil | 0.45 | 11.7 |
| Micronutrients | Brewers dried yeast, dicalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, iodized salt, choline chloride, kaolin, magnesium oxide, ferrous sulfate, vitamin E acetate, menadione sodium bisulfite, manganous oxide, zinc oxide, niacin, thiamine mononitrate, vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3, calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin, vitamin B12, calcium iodate, folic acid, biotin, cobalt carbonate | AIN-76 mineral mix, AIN-76 vitamin mix, choline bitartrate | ||||
| Total energy | 3.003 | 100 | 3.84 | 99.9 | ||