Table 1.

Ingredients and nutrient composition of the basal diet (g/kg)

Ingredient	Starter diet (1 to 28 d)	Grower diet (29 to 56 d)
Corn grains	479.0	526.0
Soybean meal	350.0	315.0
Soybean oil	15.0	15.0
Palm fat	0.0	15.0
Fish meal	67.5	50.0
Blood meal	25.0	-
Feather meal	-	25.0
Corn gluten feed	25.0	25.0
Limestone	18.1	10.6
Monocalcium phosphate	11.6	11.2
L-lysine HCl	1.5	1.2
DL-methionine	1.6	1.1
L-threonine	0.7	0.5
Sodium chloride	2.1	2.1
Sodium bicarbonate	1.8	1.2
Vitamin premix1	0.5	0.5
Trace-mineral premix2	0.5	0.5
Natuphos-BASF, phytase	0.1	0.1
Chemical analysis3
DM	891.1	892.4
CP	265.0	235.0
Ether extract	34.2	45.1
Crude fibre	41.2	39.1
Ash	58.5	57.2
Calculated analysis
Ca	11.3	10.2
P (total)	7.5	7.0
Lysine	16.0	14.0
Methionine+cystine	10.5	10.0
ME (MJ/kg)	11.71	12.96

¹Supplied per kg of diet: vitamin A 12,000 IU, vitamin D₃ 5,000 IU, vitamin E (α-tocopheryl acetate) 30 IU, vitamin K₃ 3 mg, vitamin B₁ 1 mg, vitamin B₂ 8 mg, vitamin B₆ 3 mg, vitamin B₁₂ 0.02 mg, nicotinic acid 20 mg, Ca pantothenate 20 mg, folic acid 2 mg, biotin 0.2 mg, vitamin C 10 mg, choline chloride 480 mg.

²Supplied per kg of diet: Zn 125 mg, Mn 100 mg, Fe 62 mg, Cu 7.5 mg, Co 0.2 mg, I 2 mg, Se 0.2 mg.

³According AOAC International (1995).