Table 5.
Basal diet formulations and nutritional contents.
| Ingredients | Percentage % |
| Corn | 58.3 |
| Soybean meal | 30.2 |
| Fish meal | 5.6 |
| Soybean oil | 2.3 |
| Dicalcium phosphate | 1.2 |
| Lime stone | 1.00 |
| Salt | 0.2 |
| Methionine | 0.2 |
| Premix 1 | 1.00 |
| Total | 100.00 |
| Calculated chemical composition | |
| Crude protein | 21.87 |
| Metabolisable energy (MJ/kg) | 13.45 |
| Lysine | 1.14 |
| Methionine | 0.40 |
| Methionine + Cystine | 0.94 |
| Calcium | 0.95 |
| Available phosphorus | 0.49 |
1 The premix contained (per kg of diet): Fe, 60 mg; Cu, 7.5 mg; Zn, 65 mg; Mn, 110 mg; I, 1.1 mg; Se, 0.4 mg; Biotin, 0.04 mg; choline chloride, 400 mg; vitamin A (from retinyl acetate), 4500 IU; vitamin D3 (from cholecalciferol), 1000 IU; vitamin K (menadione sodium bisulphate), 1.3 mg; vitamin B1, 2.2 mg; vitamin B2, 10 mg; vitamin B3, 10 mg; vitamin B5, 50 mg; vitamin B6, 4 mg; vitamin B11, 1 mg; vitamin B12, 0.013 mg.