Table 1.

Test diets used in the experiment.¹

Ingredients	Starter	Grower	Finisher I	Finisher II
	1–10 D	11–20 D	21–42 D	43–56 D
	%	%	%	%
Yellow corn 7.4%	53.78	62	63.25	65.66
Soybean meal, 44%	35.5	27.07	27.49	23.76
Proplus	6.06	5.69	2.26	3.7
Poultry fat	2.78	2.66	4	4
Dicalcium phosphate	0.63	0.61	1.78	0.83
Limestone				0.25
Salt	0.38	0.46	0.35	0.43
Methionine 98.5%	0.31	0.3	0.26	0.24
Lysine	0.11	0.2	0.13	0.16
Choline chloride-60	0.15	0.15	0.15	0.15
Vitamin premix	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Mineral premix	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Threonine 98%	0.01	0.05	0.04	0.04
Selenium premix 0.06%	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
Monsanto santoquin ethoxyquin	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
Mold curb	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
Calculated values
Metabolisable energy (kcal/kg)	3,035	3,108	3,180	3,215
Digestible arginine	1.49	1.23	1.15	1.08
Digestible lysine	1.22	1.08	0.98	0.93
Digestible methionine	0.61	0.55	0.5	0.48
Digestible methionine and cystine	0.91	0.82	0.76	0.72
Digestible leucine	1.75	1.53	1.47	1.4
Digestible isoleucine	0.89	0.73	0.7	0.65
Digestible threonine	0.79	0.71	0.67	0.63
Digestible valine	0.98	0.83	0.78	0.74
Analyzed composition
Crude protein, %	24.3	20.97	18.63	18.45
Calcium, %	0.79	0.66	0.68	0.55
Total phosphorus, %	0.71	0.61	0.55	0.53

¹Supplies per kilogram of diet: antioxidant, 200 mg; retinyl acetate, 21 mg; cholecalciferol, 110 μg; D-α-tocopherol acetate, 132 mg; menadione, 6 mg; riboflavin, 15.6 mg; D-calcium pantothenate, 23.8 mg; niacin, 92.6 mg; folic acid, 7.1 mg; cyanocobalamin, 0.032 mg; pyridoxine, 22 mg; biotin, 0.66 mg; thiamine, 3.7 mg; choline chlorine, 1,200 mg; Mn, 100 mg; Mg, 27 mg; Zn, 100 mg; Fe, 50 mg; Cu, 10 mg; I, 1 mg; Se, 200 μg.