Table 2.
Ingredients of diets used in Exp. 2 (as-fed basis, %).
| Ingredients | Diets1 |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Control | LL | SL | |
| Puffed soybean (43% CP) | 7.00 | 7.00 | 7.00 |
| Corn | 12.30 | 15.50 | 14.00 |
| Fish meal (64% CP) | 4.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Puffed corn | 22.00 | 22.00 | 22.00 |
| Maize (7.8% CP) | 42.50 | 41.72 | 43.00 |
| Soybean oil | 1.50 | 1.00 | 0.63 |
| Monocalcium phosphate | 0.95 | 0.97 | 0.95 |
| Limestone | 0.40 | 0.50 | 0.50 |
| Sodium chloride | 0.40 | 0.40 | 0.40 |
| Whey Powder | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Glucose | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Sucrose | 3.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 |
| Citric acid | 0.80 | 0.80 | 0.80 |
| Zinc oxide | 0.30 | 0.30 | 0.30 |
| Choline chloride | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Lysine hydrochloride | 0.34 | 0.34 | 0.63 |
| Hydroxy methionine | 0.12 | 0.08 | 0.23 |
| L-threonine | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.22 |
| L-tryptophan | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.05 |
| Premix vitamins 2 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.04 |
| Organic mineral essence 2 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.15 |
| Total | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
CP = crude protein.
1
Control, a normal protein containing 20% CP; LL, a low ratio of Lys to CP diet containing 17% CP; SL, a standard ratio of Lys to CP diet containing 17% CP.
2
Premix vitamins supplied per kilogram of diet: 5 mg Cu, 80 mg Fe, 3 mg Mn, 85 mg Zn, 0.1 mg I, 0.3 mg Se, 50 mg nicotinic acid, 5 mg pantothenic acid, 2 mg folic acid, 0.2 mg biotin; 10,800 IU vitamin A, 4,000 IU vitamin D3, 40 IU vitamin E, 4 mg vitamin K3, 6 mg vitamin B1, 12 mg vitamin B2, and 0.05 mg vitamin B12.