Table 1.

Composition of experimental diets, % (as-fed basis)

Item	Experimental diets
	Barley		Wheat
	Unfermented	Fermented	Unfermented	Fermented
Ingredient
Barley	41.36	–	–	–
Fermented barley1	–	41.36	–	–
Wheat	–	–	43.88	–
Fermented wheat1	–	–	–	43.88
Soybean meal	22.96	22.96	21.68	21.68
Whey permeate	11.76	11.76	11.76	11.76
Canola meal	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00
Peas	5.00	5.00	5.00	5.00
Vegetable oil	3.84	3.84	2.68	2.68
Limestone	1.32	1.32	1.39	1.39
Dicalcium phosphate	1.31	1.31	1.15	1.15
Salt	0.64	0.64	0.66	0.66
Celite	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.40
Choline chloride	0.11	0.11	0.11	0.11
l-Lys	0.67	0.67	0.69	0.69
l-Thr	0.24	0.24	0.23	0.23
dl-Met	0.24	0.24	0.21	0.21
Vit-Min premix2	0.15	0.15	0.15	0.15

¹Inoculated with either homofermentative Lactobacillus plantarum or heterofermentative L. buchneri.

²Supplied the following per kilogram of diet: 2,000 IU vitamin A, 200 IU D₃, 40 mg E, 2 mg K, 1.5 mg B₁, 7 mg B₂, 2.5 mg B₆, 25 µg B₁₂, 14 mg calcium pantothenate, 1 mg folic acid, 21 mg niacin, 70 µg biotin, 10 mg Cu (as copper sulphate), 0.4 mg iodine (as potassium iodine), 120 mg iron (as ferrous sulphate), 10 mg Mn (as manganous oxide), 0.3 mg Se (as sodium selenite), and 110 mg Zn (as zinc oxide).