Table 1. Feed formula and chemical composition of the basal diet, as-fed basis.

Items
Ingredients	%
Yellow corn	54.38
Soybean meal, 47% CP	30.51
Corn gluten meal, 60% CP	3.00
Wheat bran	5.46
Tallow	3.00
Vitamin and trace mineral premix1	0.22
L-Lysine-HCl,78%	0.01
DL-Methionine,98.5%	0.18
L-Threonine, 98%	0.02
Dicalcium phophate	1.87
Limestone	0.94
Choline-Cl, 50%	0.09
Salt	0.32
Calculated composition
TMEn, kcal/kg	3,050
CP, %	21.0
Ca, %	1.00
Available P, %	0.45
Lysine, %	1.10
Methionine + Cystine, %	0.90

¹Vitamin and trace mineral premix provided the following nutrients per kg of diet: vitamin A, 40,000 IU; vitamin D₃, 8,000 IU; vitamin E, 10 IU; vitamin K₃, 4.0 mg; vitamin B₁, 4.0 mg; vitamin B₂, 12.0 mg; vitamin B₆, 6.0 mg; vitamin B₁₂, 0.02 mg; niacin, 60.0 mg; pantothenic acid, 20 mg; folic acid, 2.0 mg; biotin, 0.02 mg; Fe, 30.0 mg (as FeSO₄H₂O); Zn, 25.0 mg (as ZnSO₄H₂O); Mn, 20.0 mg (as MnSO₄H₂O); Cu, 5.0 mg (as CuSO₄H₂O); Se, 0.1 mg (as Na₂SeO₃).