Table 1.
The ingredients and chemical composition of basal diets
| Basal diets | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ingredients | Starter | Grower | |
| (g/kg) | |||
| Corn grain | 624.0 | 645.0 | |
| Soybean meal | 322.0 | 292.0 | |
| Corn oil | 15.0 | 27.0 | |
| DCP | 19.0 | 18.0 | |
| Limestone | 5.0 | 4.0 | |
| Common salt | 2.5 | 2.1 | |
| Mineral premix1 | 5.0 | 5.0 | |
| Vitamin premix1 | 5.0 | 5.0 | |
| DL-Methionine | 2.5 | 2.0 | |
| L-Lysine | 1.8 | 1.3 | |
| L-Threonine | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
| Sodium bicarbonate | 1.2 | 2.0 | |
| Salinomycine | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
| Calculated analysis (%) | |||
| AME (kcal/kg) | 3000 | 3100 | |
| Crude protein | 19.5 | 18.00 | |
| Calcium | 0.90 | 0.90 | |
| Phosphorous, available | 0.45 | 0.45 | |
| Met + Cys | 0.88 | 0.88 | |
| Lysine | 1.15 | 1.12 | |
1Provides per kg of diet: 9000 I.U. vitamin A; 2000 I.U. vitamin D3; 18 I.U. vitamin E; 2 mg menadion; 1.8 mg thiamine; 6.6 mg riboflavin; 30 mg niacin; 3 mg pyridoxine; 15 mg vitamin B12; 100 mg D-pantothenic acid; 1 mg folic acid; 0.1 mg biotin; 500 mg choline chloride; 100 mg antioxidant; 100 mg manganese; 84.7 mg zinc; 50 mg iron; 10 mg copper; 1 mg iodine; 0.2 mg selenium.