Table 2.
Chemical composition (%) and feed ingredients (%) of concentrates used in this experiment (dry matter basis unless otherwise stated)
| Item | Growing | Early fattening |
Late fattening |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical composition | |||
| Crude protein | 15.97 | 14.83 | 13.10 |
| Ether extract | 3.87 | 4.20 | 5.58 |
| Crude fiber | 9.15 | 7.62 | 8.60 |
| Crude ash | 8.42 | 6.67 | 6.78 |
| Nitrogen free extract | 62.59 | 66.50 | 66.31 |
| Calcium | 1.39 | 0.91 | 0.92 |
| Phosphorus | 0.56 | 0.46 | 0.40 |
| Neutral detergent fiber | 33.87 | 30.91 | 28.76 |
| Acid detergent fiber | 16.36 | 13.74 | 13.79 |
| Total digestible nutrients | 78.27 | 81.89 | 82.74 |
| Ingredients | |||
| Corn grain | 24.0 | 25.5 | 30.0 |
| Wheat grain | 8.5 | 18.0 | 16.5 |
| Soybean meal | 3.0 | 6.0 | 5.0 |
| Wheat bran | 9.0 | 5.0 | 10.0 |
| Corn gluten feed | 11.5 | 16.0 | 15.0 |
| Rapeseed meal | 7.0 | - | - |
| Cane molasses | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| Coconut meal | 14.0 | 9.5 | - |
| Cottonseed hull pellet | - | - | 4.0 |
| Palm meal | 15.0 | 13.0 | 10.0 |
| Distillers grain | - | - | 2.5 |
| Salt dehydrated | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| Limestone | 2.5 | 1.7 | 1.5 |
| Vitamin premix | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Mineral premix | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Others | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.2 |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |