Table 1.

Basal diet composition (as-fed basis)

Ingredients	%
Corn	50.4
Soybean meal (CP 46%)	18.7
Wheat grain	10.0
Corn gluten meal	2.00
Wheat bran	5.00
Animal fat	4.40
Limestone	7.50
Tricalcium phosphate (P 18%)	1.40
Sodium chloride	0.30
DL-met (50%)	0.10
Vitamin premix1	0.10
Mineral premix2	0.10
Total	100
Calculated composition
ME (kcal/kg)	2,904
CP	15.5
Lys	0.80
Met+Cys	0.82
Ca	3.25
P	0.61
Analyzed composition
ME (kcal/kg)	2,914
CP	15.6
Lys	0.85
Ca	3.41
Available P	0.48

¹Provided per kg of diet: vitamin A, 125,000 IU; vitamin D₃, 2,500 IU; vitamin E, 10 mg; vitamin K₃, 2 mg; vitamin B1, 1 mg; vitamin B₂, 5 mg; vitamin B₆, 1 mg; vitamin B1₂, 15 mg; folic acid, 500 mg; niacin, 35,000 mg; Ca-pantothenate acid, 10,000 mg and biotin, 50 mg.

²Provided per kg of diet: 8 mg Mn (as MnO₂); 60 mg Zn (as ZnSO₄); 5 mg Cu (as CuSO₄·5H₂O); 40 mg Fe (as FeSO₄·7H₂O); 0.3 mg Co (as CoSO₄·5H₂O); 1.5 mg I (as KI), and 0.15 mg Se (as Na₂SeO₃·5H₂O).