Table 1.
Ingredient composition (g/kg, as-fed) of the experimental balancer formulation.
| Dietary ingredients | kg/100kg |
|---|---|
| Soybean meal (48) | 64.86 |
| Maize gluten meal | 12.62 |
| Vegetable oil | 10.27 |
| Dicalcium phosphate | 5.00 |
| Limestone | 2.84 |
| NaCl | 0.76 |
| Lysine HCL | 0.95 |
| Methionine | 1.35 |
| Vitamin mineral premix1 | 1.35 |
| 100 | |
| Calculated analysis | |
| Crude Protein g/kg | 414.2 |
| ME MJ/kg | 12.77 |
| Crude Fat g/kg | 110.1 |
| Ca g/kg | 24.5 |
| Available P g/kg | 10.4 |
| Digestible Lysine g/kg | 37.8 |
| Digestible Methionine + Cysteine g/kg | 11.2 |
| Digestible Tryptophan g/kg | 4.1 |
| Digestible Threonine g/kg | 13.5 |
This balancer was fed as a part of complete diet comprised 630 g/kg of each experimental inbred wheat line sample and 370 g/kg of the balancer. Each experimental diet met the diet specification for this strain of broiler chicken (Aviagen Ltd., Edinburgh, UK).
The vitamin and mineral premix contained vitamins and trace elements to meet the breeder's recommendations (Aviagen Ltd., Edinburgh, UK). The premix provided (units/kg complete diet (63% wheat and 37% balancer)): retinol 3600 mg, cholecalciferol 125 mg, α-tocopherol 34 mg, menadione 3 mg, thiamine 2 mg, riboflavin 7 mg, pyridoxine 5 mg, cobalamin 15 mg, nicotinic acid 50 mg, pantotenic acid 15 mg, folic acid 1 mg, biotin 200 mg, iron 80 mg, copper 10 mg, manganese 100 mg, cobalt 0.5 mg, zinc 80 mg, iodine 1 mg, selenium 0.2 mg and molybdenum 0.5 mg.