Table 2.
Amino acid content of basal diets, g/100 g.
| Item | Feeding period, weeks |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1–4 | 5–8 | 9–12 | 13–16 | |
| Crude protein | 27.08 | 24.63 | 20.93 | 17.70 |
| Aspartic acid | 2.540 | 2.122 | 1.788 | 1.166 |
| Glutamic acid | 5.373 | 4.606 | 4.184 | 3.712 |
| Serine | 1.366 | 1.147 | 1.013 | 0.772 |
| Glycine | 1.142 | 0.972 | 0.869 | 0.669 |
| Histidine | 0.649 | 0.567 | 0.518 | 0.444 |
| Arginine | 1.481 | 1.370 | 1.193 | 0.916 |
| Threonine | 1.061 | 0.909 | 0.768 | 0.676 |
| Alanine | 1.327 | 1.104 | 0.987 | 0.800 |
| Proline | 1.815 | 1.589 | 1.492 | 1.460 |
| Tyrosine | 0.870 | 0.819 | 0.751 | 0.541 |
| Valine | 1.350 | 1.134 | 0.984 | 0.734 |
| Methionine | 0.456 | 0.394 | 0.336 | 0.247 |
| Cysteine | 0.462 | 0.409 | 0.377 | 0.334 |
| Isoleucine | 1.193 | 0.983 | 0.868 | 0.623 |
| Leucine | 2.424 | 1.976 | 1.733 | 1.325 |
| Phenylalanine | 1.456 | 1.191 | 1.035 | 0.781 |
| Lysine | 1.296 | 1.189 | 0.962 | 0.622 |
| Methionine + cysteine | 0.918 | 0.803 | 0.713 | 0.581 |