Table 7.

Chemical analysis of complete diets, experiment 1 (as-fed basis)¹

			Fish meal source3
Item, %	Control	ESBM2	1	2	3
Dry matter	90.27	88.73	88.58	90.46	90.18
Crude protein	24.20	24.20	22.30	24.00	23.20
Ca	0.81	0.89	0.84	0.89	0.89
P	0.71	0.73	0.64	0.69	0.72
Ether extract	5.70	5.10	5.50	5.40	5.60
Ash	6.11	5.36	5.76	5.73	6.21

¹Samples were collected at the feeder, pooled, mixed, and then split using a riffle splitter to create a composite sample and submitted to Ward Laboratories (Kearney, NE) for analysis.

²HP 300 (Hamlet Protein, Findlay, OH).

³Source 1 (IPC 790) was from The Scoular Company (Minneapolis, MN); source 2 (Omega Special Select Menhaden) was from Omega Protein (Houston, TX); and source 3 (LT Prime Menhaden) was from Daybrook Fisheries, Inc. (New Orleans, LA).