Table 1.
Composition of basal diet.
| Description | % |
|---|---|
| Cracked Barley | 30.2 |
| Soybean meal | 10.0 |
| Sunflower meal | 38.0 |
| Wheat bran | 6.0 |
| Molasses | 10.0 |
| Limestone | 3.0 |
| Salt | 1.5 |
| DL-Methionine | 0.8 |
| Dicalcium phosphate | 0.3 |
| Vitamin and mineral premixa | 0.2 |
| Analysis (dry matter bases) | |
| ME, kcal/kg | 3.088 |
| Crude protein, % | 24.3 |
| Ether extract, % | 3.4 |
| Crude fiber, % | 6.9 |
| Ash, % | 8.1 |
| Ca, % | 1.3 |
| P, % | 0.9 |
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The vitamin-mineral premix provides the following (per kg): all-trans-retinyl acetate, 1.8 mg; cholecalciferol, 0.025 mg; all-rac-a-tocopherol acetate, 125 mg; menadione (menadione sodium bisulfate), 1.1 mg; riboflavin, 4.4 mg; thiamine (thiamine mononitrate), 1.1 mg; vitamin B-6, 2.2 mg; niacin, 35 mg; Ca-pantothenate, 10 mg; vitamin B-12, 0.02 mg; folic acid, 0.55 mg; d-biotin, 0.1 mg. manganese (from manganese oxide), 40 mg; iron (from iron sulfate), 12.5 mg; zinc (from zinc oxide), 25 mg; copper (from copper sulfate), 3.5 mg; iodine (from potassium iodide), 0.3 mg; selenium (from sodium selenite), 0.15 mg; choline chloride, 175 mg.