Table 1.

Ingredients and chemical composition of control and oil supplemented diets.

Treatment	Control	Sunflower oil	Sunflower and fish oil	Sunflower and marine algae
INGREDIENTS (g/kg DRY MATTER)
Cracked corn grain	250	245	243	243
Barley grain	150	147	146	146
Soybean meal	200	196	194	194
Lucerne hay	200	196	194	194
Beet pulp	100	98	97	97
Molasses	55	54	53	53
Sodium bicarbonate	15	15	15	15
Calcium carbonate	14	14	14	14
Dicalcium phosphate	6	6	6	6
Mineral vitamin premix	5	5	5	5
Marine salt	5	5	5	5
Sunflower oil	–	20	20	20
Fish oil	–	–	10	–
Algae marine oil	–	–	–	10
COMPOSITION (g/kg DRY MATTER)
Organic matter	896	895	894	894
Crude protein	191	189	184	185
Neutral detergent fiber	354	390	364	368
Acid detergent fiber	139	145	141	142
Ether extract	16.0	37.2	47.3	48.9
DIETARY FATTY ACID (FA) PROFILE (AS % OF TOTAL FA)
C14:0	1.09	0.60	1.30	1.78
C16:0	20.9	14.7	15.1	15.4
Total C18	76.3	82.8	72.2	66.7
C20:5ω3			1.35	0.27
C22:5ω6			0.28	3.73
C22:6ω3			4.05	8.85
C24:0				0.34
Otros	1.20	1.33	5.04	2.44
DIETARY C18 FA (AS % OF TOTAL C18 FA)
C18:0	3.8	5.0	6.5	5.2
C18:1 c9	31.8	36.4	38.2	36.6
C18:2 c9c12	50.1	52.0	48.2	51.6
18:3 c9c12c15	14.3	6.7	7.2	6.6

Fatty acid profile of oils (as % of total fatty acids).

Sunflower oil: 8.7% C16:0, 5.3% C18:0, 35.6% C18:1ω9 c9, 47.3% C18:2ω6 c9c12, 0.3% C18:3ω3 c9c12c15.

Fish oil: 4.1% C14:0, 16.6% C16:0, 6.8% C18:0, 17.5% C18:1ω9 c9, 2.3% C18:2ω6 c9c12, 3.8% C18:3ω3 c9c12c15, 6.6% C20:5ω3 c5c8c11c14c17, 1.4% C22:5ω6 c4c7c10c13c16, 19.9% C22:6ω3 c4c7c10c13c16c19.

Algae oil: 6.4% C14:0, 18.4% C16:0, 1.0% C18:0, 1.8% C18:1ω9 c9, 0.5% C18:2ω6 c9c12, 0.1% C18:3ω3 c9c12c15, 1.7% C24:0, 1.3% C20:5ω3 c5c8c11c14c17, 18.3% C22:5ω6 c4c7c10c13c16, 43.5% C22:6ω3 c4c7c10c13c16c19.