Table 1.

Composition of the basal diet

Ingredient (%)	Amount
Corn	57.78
Soybean meal	28.36
Limestone	9.67
Dicalcium phosphate	1.51
Wheat middlings	1.00
Palm oil	1.00
Common salt	0.33
DL-Methionine	0.17
Choline Cl-70%	0.06
Mineral premixa	0.10
Vitamin premixb	0.03
Total	100.00
Calculated analysis
Crude protein	17.40
Crude fat	3.72
Crude fibre	2.62
Calcium	3.91
Available phosphorus	0.42
Lysine	0.93
Methionine	0.42
Lysine + cysteine	0.71
Metabolizable energy (MJ/kg)	11.70

^aMineral premix (per kg diet): 80 mg iron, 100 mg manganese, 15 mg copper, 80 mg zinc, 1 mg iodine, 0.2 mg selenium, 0.25 mg cobalt, 4 mg potassium, 0.6 mg magnesium and 1.5 mg sodium

^bVitamin premix (per kg diet): 15,000 IU vitamin A, 3000 IU vitamin D₃, 22.5 mg vitamin E, 6 mg vitamin K₃, 3 mg vitamin B₁, 9 mg vitamin B₂, 6 mg vitamin B₆, 0.03 mg vitamin B₁₂, 18 mg calcium D-panthothenate, 60 mg niacin, 1.5 mg folic acid, and 0.075 mg biotin