Table 1.
Composition of Basal Diets (as-fed basis).
| Ingredients, % | Chemical Composition b | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Corn | 57 | Crude protein | 17.4 |
| Expended maize | 5 | Digestible energy, kcal/kg | 3466 |
| Soybean meal (43%CP) | 22 | Lysine | 0.79 |
| Rice bran meal | 5 | Calcium | 0.68 |
| Broken rice | 5 | Total phosphorus | 0.53 |
| Fish meal | 2 | Dry matter | 87.86 |
| Sucrose | 1 | ||
| Calcium lactate | 0.3 | ||
| Calcium hydrogen phosphate | 1 | ||
| Limestone powder | 0.1 | ||
| Premix a | 1 | ||
| 98% lysine | 0.4 | ||
| Threonine | 0.1 | ||
| Methionine | 0.1 | ||
a Providing the following amounts of vitamins and minerals per kilogram on an as-fed basis: Zn (ZnO), 50 mg; Cu (CuSO4), 20 mg; Mn (MnO), 55 mg; Fe (FeSO4), 100 mg; I (KI), 1 mg; Co (CoSO4), 2 mg; Se (Na2SeO3), 0.3 mg; vitamin A, 8255 IU; vitamin D3, 2000 IU; vitamin E, 40 IU; vitamin B1, 2 mg; vitamin B2, 4 mg; pantothenic acid, 15 mg; vitamin B6, 10 mg; vitamin B12, 0.05 mg; nicotinic acid, 30 mg; folic acid, 2 mg; vitamin K3, 1.5 mg; biotin, 0.2 mg; choline chloride, 800 mg; and vitamin C, 100 mg. The premix did not contain additional copper, zinc, antibiotics, or probiotics. b Analyzed values excluding calculated digestible energy.