Table 1.

Composition of quail's standard basal diet

Ingredients	Concentration (g kg -1 diet)
Soya meal	319.60
Ground yellow corn	557.50
Corn gluten	74.50
Fish meal	10.00
Wheat bran	10.00
Limestone	13.00
Dicalcium phosphate	7.00
Lysine	1.70
DL–methionine	0.07
Sodium chloride	3.00
Mineral and vitamin premix*	3.00

^* The premix Supplied for each kilogram diet: 12,000 and 2000 IU vitamin A and D3 respectively; 1000 mg vitamin E, 100 mg vitamin K, 0.50 mg vitamin B2, 0.15 mg vitamin B6, 1000 mg pantothenic acid, 2.00 mg niacin, 60.00 mg choline chloride, 3.00 mg iron, 6.00 mg manganese, 0.40 mg copper, 5.00 mg zinc, 1.00 mg vitamin B1, 0.001 mg vitamin B12, 1.00 mg folic acid, 0.05 mg biotin, 0.30 mg iodine, 0.10 mg cobalt and 0.01 mg selenium.