Table 1.

Nutrient loading values for major ingredients used in diet formulation

	Corn	Soybean hulls	Soybean meal	Fish meal	DDGS	Spray-dried whey
Crude protein, %	8.50	9.80	46.50	62.90	27.2	12.10
Lysine	0.26 (78)1	0.67 (61)	3.02 (90)	4.81 (95)	0.78 (62)	0.90 (87)
Isoleucine	0.28 (87)	0.43 (62)	2.16 (89)	2.57 (94)	1.01 (75)	0.62 (83)
Leucine	0.99 (92)	0.90 (63)	3.66 (89)	4.54 (94)	3.17 (83)	1.08 (87)
Methionine	0.17 (90)	0.11 (69)	0.67 (91)	1.77 (94)	0.55 (82)	0.17 (81)
Cysteine	0.19 (86)	0.11 (69)	0.74 (87)	0.57 (88)	0.57 (82)	0.25 (85)
Threonine	0.29 (82)	0.35 (62)	1.85 (87)	2.64 (88)	1.06 (71)	0.72 (79)
Tryptophan	0.06 (84)	0.11 (63)	0.65 (90)	0.66 (90)	0.21 (70)	0.18 (79)
Valine	0.39 (87)	0.43 (62)	2.27 (88)	3.03 (93)	1.35 (75)	0.60 (77)
NE, kcal/kg	2,650	1,003	2,020	2,335	2,650	2,215
Crude fiber, %	2.2	33.3	3.9	—		—
Calcium, %	0.03	0.54	0.34	5.21	0.03	0.75
Phosphorus, %	0.28 (14)	0.11 (30)	0.69 (23)	3.04 (94)	0.71 (77)	0.72 (97)

¹Numbers in parenthesis are digestibility and availability coefficients for amino acids and phosphorus, respectively.