Table 1.

Composition and calculated and analysed nutrients (g/kg) of the basal diets

	Starter			Grower/finisher
	Low	Medium	High	Low	Medium	High
Ingredients as fed
Wheat	650	600	606	670	600	593
Soya bean meal 48	231	220	170	170	143	82.9
Soya oil	258	37.8	40.1	39.8	57.7	63.4
Salt	3.1	3.1	2.8	3.3	3.1	2.8
Sodium bicarbonate	0.9	0.9	1.3	0.7	0.9	1.3
Limestone	8.1	8.1	7.9	9.2	9.1	8.8
Dicalcium phosphate	18.3	17.9	17.8	15.4	14.8	14.6
Lysine HCl	3.4	3.4	4.3	3.1	3.3	4.3
dl-Methionine	3.0	2.7	2.8	2.3	2.1	2.1
l-Threonine	1.5	1.4	1.7	1.3	1.1	1.4
Rapeseed meal	50	50	80	80	80	120
Sunflower seed meal	0	50	60	0	80	100
Trace mineral–vitamin premix 1	5	5	5	5	5	5
Calculated nutrients (%)
AME poultry (MJ/kg)	11.96	11.96	11.96	12.38	12.38	12.38
Digestible lysine	1.10	1.10	1.10	0.97	0.97	0.97
Digestible methionine+cystine	0.85	0.85	0.85	0.76	0.76	0.76
Analysed nutrients (%)
Moisture	12.7	12.4	12.3	11.9	12.1	12.0
Crude ash	5.8	5.9	5.9	4.9	5.6	5.6
Crude protein	20.3	20.8	20.0	19.4	19.1	18.4
Crude fat	4.4	5.6	5.8	6.2	7.6	8.2
Crude fibre	3.0	3.9	4.3	3.4	4.6	5.3
Starch	39.2	36.2	36.6	38.3	36.2	35.8
Analysed endogenous xylanase (U/kg)	171	166	135	113	102	100
Total non-starch polysaccharide 2	11.5	12.2	12.5	11.4	12.6	13.1
Arabinoxylan 2	5.68	5.79	5.94	5.79	5.99	6.17
β-Glucan 2	0.63	0.61	0.62	0.65	0.62	0.64

AME=apparent metabolizable energy.

¹ Supplied per kilogram of diet: vitamin A, 12 000 IU; vitamin D3, 2400 IU; vitamin E, 50 mg; vitamin K3, 1.5 mg; vitamin B1, 2.0 mg; vitamin B2, 7.5 mg; vitamin B6, 3.5 mg; vitamin B12, 20 mcg; niacin, 35 mg; d-pantothenic acid, 12 mg; choline chloride, 460 mg; folic acid, 1.0 mg; biotin, 0.2 mg; Fe, 80 mg (as Fe SO₄. H₂O); Cu, 12 mg (as CuSO₄.5 H₂O O); Mn, 85 mg (as MnO); Zn, 60 mg (as ZnSO₄.H₂O); Co, 0.4 mg (as Co SO₄.7 H₂O); I, 0.8 mg (as KI); Se, 0.15 mg (as Na₂SeO₃).

² Values based on feed ingredients analysis in Table 2.