Table 1.

Diet compositions and nutrient contents of the experimental diets ¹.

Item	CON	FCSM
Ingredients, %DM
Yellow corn	54.50	54.30
Soybean meal	33.50	27.40
Fermented cottonseed meal	0.00	6.00
Sunflower oil	3.00	3.30
Cottonseed protein	4.00	4.00
Premix 2	5.00	5.00
Chemical compositions
Metabolizable energy, Mcal/kg	2.95	2.95
Crude protein, % of DM	21.23	21.23
Ether extract, % of DM	5.8	5.5
Crude fiber, % of DM	2.4	2.5
Calcium, % of DM	1.04	1.03
Total phosphorus, % of DM	0.69	0.71
Available phosphate, % of DM	0.45	0.45
Methionine, % of DM	0.50	0.50
Methionine + cysteine, % of DM	0.86	0.86
Threonine, % of DM	0.78	0.76
Lysine, % of DM	1.12	1.08

¹ CON, no fermented cottonseed meal in diet; FCSM, 6% fermented cottonseed meal in diet. ² Premix provided the following per kg of diets: Ca 8.106 g/kg; P 2.98 g/kg; Nacl 2.94 g/kg; Lys 0.234 g/kg; Met 1.791 g/kg; VA 8800 IU/kg; VD 3000 IU/kg; VE 30 mg/kg; VK₂ 1.65 mg/kg; VB₁ 2.5 mg/kg; VB₂ 6.6 mg/kg; VB₃ 11 mg/kg; VB₄ 500 mg/kg; VB₅ 60 mg/kg; VB₆ 4.0 mg/kg; VH 0.2 mg/kg; VB₁₁ 1.0 mg/kg; VB₁₂ 0.02 mg/kg; VC 50 mg/kg; Fe²⁺ 80.0 mg/kg; Cu²⁺ 8.0 mg/kg; Zn²⁺ 60.0 mg/kg; Mn²⁺ 70.0 mg/kg; I 0.5 mg/kg; Se⁴⁺ 0.3 mg/kg.