Table 2.

Analyzed amino acid content of basal diets, g/100 g.

Item	Feeding period, weeks
	1–4	5–8	9–12	13–16
Crude protein	26.57	24.80	22.10	19.15
Aspartic acid	2.41	2.34	1.77	1.44
Glutamic acid	4.50	5.10	4.38	4.30
Serine	1.17	1.30	0.98	0.91
Glycine	1.02	1.13	0.90	0.83
Histidine	0.65	0.67	0.54	0.52
Arginine	1.56	1.42	1.37	1.11
Threonine	1.06	1.11	0.84	0.73
Alanine	1.19	1.23	1.00	0.88
Proline	1.38	1.90	1.44	1.57
Tyrosine	0.96	1.01	0.75	0.66
Valine	1.17	1.21	1.05	0.90
Methionine	0.42	0.39	0.29	0.26
Cysteine	0.42	0.40	0.36	0.33
Isoleucine	1.05	1.06	0.86	0.77
Leucine	2.04	2.16	1.79	1.57
Phenylalanine	1.16	1.29	1.09	0.90
Lysine	1.37	1.21	1.02	0.81
Methionine + cysteine	0.84	0.79	0.65	0.59