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. 2020 Jan 9;5(2):1080–1085. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.9b03218

Table 3. Composition of Three Experimental Starter (0–14 days) Dietsa for Meat-Type Chickens.

  %
ingredient controlb HO PNc OAd
corn, yellow 52.5 53.86 55.72
wheat, middlings 0.13 0.00 3.10
soybean meal 32.5 26.2 31.80
high-oleic peanut 0.0 10.2 0.0
oleic acid oil 0.00 0.00 5.50
poultry meal 6.0 6.0 6.0
poultry fat 5.50 0.00 0.00
salt 0.3 0.2 0.3
limestone 0.9 0.9 0.9
sodium bicarbonate 0.1 0.3 0.1
di-calcium phosphate 0.97 1.05 0.96
dl-methionine 0.37 0.39 0.37
l-lysine 0.22 0.35 0.23
l-threonine 0.11 0.15 0.12
choline chloride 0.10 0.10 0.10
vitamin premixe 0.05 0.05 0.05
mineral premixf 0.20 0.20 0.20
selenium premixg 0.05 0.05 0.05
a

Isocaloric (3080 kcal/kg), isonitrogenous (18% protein).

b

Conventional corn + soybean.

c

Unblanched (peanut skin intact) raw high-oleic peanuts + corn.

d

Control diet spiked with 5.5% oleic fatty acid oil.

e

Vitamin premix supplied the following per kg of diet: 13 200 IU vitamin A, 4000 IU vitamin D3, 33 IU vitamin E, 0.02 mg vitamin B12, 0.13 mg biotin, 2 mg menadione (K3), 2 mg thiamine, 6.6 mg riboflavin, 11 mg d-pantothenic acid, 4 mg vitamin B6, 55 mg niacin, and 1.1 mg folic acid.

f

Mineral premix supplied the following per kg of diet: manganese, 120 mg; zinc, 120 mg; iron, 80 mg; copper, 10 mg; iodine, 2.5 mg; and cobalt.

g

1 mg selenium premix provided 0.2 mg Se (as Na2SeO3) per kg of diet.