Table 1.
Composition and nutrient levels of the basal diet (as-fed basis, %).
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Ingredients | |
| Corn (8.0% CP) | 52.96 |
| Extruded soybean (35.5% CP) | 15.30 |
| Soybean meal (45% CP) | 8.00 |
| Whey power (7.0% CP) | 10.00 |
| Fish meal (64.6% CP) | 6.00 |
| Spray-dried plasma protein (75% CP) | 3.00 |
| Glucose | 2.00 |
| Soybean oil | 0.70 |
| Dicalcium phosphate | 0.02 |
| Limestone | 0.80 |
| Salt | 0.30 |
| l-Lysine·hydrochloride (98%) | 0.09 |
| dl-Methionine (98%) | 0.03 |
| Zinc oxide (85%) | 0.30 |
| Vitamin-mineral premix1 | 0.50 |
| Total | 100 |
| Nutrient levels | |
| Digestible energy, Mcal/kg | 3.49 |
| Crude protein | 20.22 |
| Calcium | 0.70 |
| Available phosphorus | 0.35 |
| Digestible lysine | 1.22 |
| Digestible methionine | 0.36 |
| Digestible threonine | 0.75 |
| Digestible tryptophan | 0.21 |
1
Vitamin-mineral premix provided the following per kilogram of diet: vitamin A, 12,000 IU as vitamin A acetate; vitamin D, 2,500 IU as vitamin D3; vitamin E, 30 IU as DL-α-tocopheryl acetate; 12 μg of vitamin B12; vitamin K, 3 mg as menadione sodium bisulfate; d-pantothenic acid, 15 mg as calcium pantothenate; 40 mg of nicotinic acid; choline, 400 mg as choline chloride; Mn, 40 mg as manganous oxide; Zn, totally 2,250 mg of Zn2+ concentration from zinc oxide added additionally and zinc sulfate from premix; Fe, 90 mg as iron sulfate; Cu, 8.8 mg as copper oxide; I, 0.35 mg as ethylenediamine dihydroiodide; and Se, 0.3 mg as sodium selenite.