Table 1.

Feed ingredients and chemical composition of experimental diet.

Ingredients	Composition
	Starter (%)	Finisher (%)
Corn	60.1	66.2
Soya bean meal (46%)	21.3	22.4
Canola meal	5.33	0.00
Fish Meal (48%)	0.00	4.75
Corn Gluten (60%)	5.01	0.00
APCa (50%)	5.03	4.89
Limestone	1.60	1.22
Oil	0.00	0.44
DL-Methionine	0.19	0.14
Lysine HCl	0.405	0.223
Vitamin premixb	0.053	0.056
Mineral premixc	0.057	0.051
L-Threonine	0.071	0.023
Salt (NaCl)	0.200	0.200
Sodium -bi- carbonate	0.205	0.159
Anti –coccidiald	0.022	0.029
DCP 2e	1.12	0.658
Choline chloride (60%)	0.100	0.100
Calculated chemical composition (%)
Metabolize energyf (MJ/kg)	12.1	12.9
Crude Protein (%)	21.5	19.1
Calcium (%)	1.00	0.859
Available Phosphorous (%)	0.400	0.395
Dig. Lysine (%)	1.19	1.06
Dig. Methionine (%)	0.559	0.454
Dig. Methionine + Cysteine (%)	0.890	0.743
Dig. Tryptophan (%)	0.284	0.191
Dig. L-Threonine (%)	0.846	0.723

^aAnimal protein concentrate (Feather meal).

^bVitamin premix composition per kg (Vitamin A 20,000 KIU/kg, Vitamin D₃ 5,400 KIU/kg, Vitamin E 48,000 mg/kg; Vitamin K₃ 4,000 mg/kg, Vitamin B₁ 4,000 mg/kg, Vitamin B₂ 9,000 mg/kg, Vitamin B₆ 7,600 mg/kg, Vitamin B₁₂ 20 mg/kg, Niacin 60,000 mg/kg, Folic acids 1,600 mg/kg, Pantothenic acid 20.000 mg/kg, Biotin 200 mg/kg).

^cMineral premix composition per kg (Iron 60.000 mg/kg, Zinc 120,000 mg/kg, Manganese 130.000 mg/kg, Copper 10,000 mg/kg, Iodine 1,800 mg/kg, Selenium 360 mg /kg, Cobalt 400 mg/kg).

^dAnti –coccidial (Diclazuril 0.5%).

^eDCP 21(MDCP) Phosphorous 21%, Calcium 17%.

^fME (MJ/Kg) = gross energy fed in diet to birds (MJ) – gross energy of excreta collected (MJ) feed intake of diet to each bird (DM based).