Table 1.

Ingredient and calculated composition (%) of the experimental basal diets.

Items	Broilers	Turkeys
Wheat	62.53	50.00
Barley	5.00	5.00
Soybean meal	17.62	26.34
Rapeseed meal	10.00	11.77
Soya oil	0.50	1.03
Salt	0.22	0.18
Limestone	0.66	0.79
Dicalcium phosphate	1.01	2.45
Sodium bicarbonate	0.10	0.10
L-Tryptophan	0.05	0.00
Lysine HCl	0.55	0.65
DL-Methionine	0.33	0.33
L-Threonine	0.23	0.19
L-Valine	0.19	0.12
Trace mineral-vitamin premix1	0.50	0.50
Quantum Blue 5G2	0.01	0.01
Titanium dioxide	0.5	0.5
Total	100	100
Calculated composition (%, as fed)
AME, kcal/kg	2,800	2,700
Crude protein	20.52	24.00
Ca	0.90	1.34
Available P	0.31	0.60
Fat	2.13	2.65
Crude fiber	3.33	3.58
D Met + Cys	0.92	1.01
D Lys	1.25	1.56
D Trp	0.26	0.25
D Thr	0.82	0.91
D Val	0.95	1.04

¹Vitamin/mineral premix supplied per kilogram of diet: vitamin A, 16,000 IU; vitamin D₃, 3000 IU; vitamin E, 25 IU; vitamin B₁, 3 mg; vitamin B₂, 10 mg; vitamin B₆, 3 mg; vitamin B₁₂, 15 μg; nicotinic acid, 60 mg; pantothenic acid, 14.7 mg; folic acid, 1.5 mg; biotin, 125 μg; choline chloride, 25 mg; Fe as iron sulfate, 20 mg; Cu as copper sulfate, 10 mg; Mn as manganese oxide, 100 mg; Co as cobalt oxide, 1.0 mg; Zn as zinc oxide, 82.222 mg; I as potassium iodide, 1 mg; Se as sodium selenite, 0.2 mg; and Mo as molybdenum oxide, 0.5 mg.

²Quantum Blue 5G, AB Vista, Marlborough, UK; 5000 FTU/g.