Table 1.

Composition of starter and finisher diets.

Ingredient	Treatment Period (0‒35) Days
	Starter (0–15)	Finisher (15–35)
Yellow corn	57.39	61.33
Soybean meal	27.00	22.80
Palm oil	2.20	2.80
Corn gluten meal	8.80	6.0
Wheat bran	0.00	3.0
Dicalcium phosphate (DCP)	2.30	2.09
Ground limestone	0.70	0.62
Choline chloride	0.05	0.05
DL-methionine	0.105	0.075
L-lysine	0.39	0.36
Salt	0.40	0.20
Threonine	0.17	0.17
V–M premix 1	0.50	0.50
Total	100	100
Analysis
Metabolizable energy (ME) (kcal/kg)	3000	3050
Crude protein (%)	23.0	20.5
Non-phytate P (%)	0.48	0.44
Calcium (%)	0.96	0.88
Digestible lysine (%)	1.28	1.15
Digestible methionine (%)	0.60	0.54
Digestible sulfur amino acids (%)	0.95	0.86
Digestible threonine (%)	0.86	0.77

¹ V–M premix; vitamin–mineral premix contains the following per kg: vitamin A, 2,400,000 IU; vitamin D, 1,000,000 IU; vitamin E, 16,000 IU; vitamin K, 800 mg; vitamin B1, 600 mg; vitamin B₂, 1600 mg; vitamin B₆, 1000 mg; vitamin B₁₂, 6 mg; niacin, 8000 mg; folic acid, 400 mg; pantothenic acid, 3000 mg; biotin 40 mg; antioxidant, 3000 mg; cobalt, 80 mg; copper, 2000 mg; iodine, 400; iron, 1200 mg; manganese, 18,000 mg; selenium, 60 mg; zinc, 14,000 mg.