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. 2020 Oct 9;10(10):1839. doi: 10.3390/ani10101839

Table 1.

Ingredients and nutrient contents of the basal diet of Japanese quail.

Ingredients (g/kg)
Yellow corn 602
Soybean meal (44%) 250
Oil 15
Corn gluten meal, 60% 57
Dicalcium phosphate 13
Limestone 55
Nacl 3
L-lysine 2
DL-methionine 0
Premix * 3
Composition (g/kg)
Protein 199
ME (Kcal/kg) 2918
Ca 25
P available 3.50
Methionine 3.50
Lysine 10.9
Methionine + cysteine 7.10

* Provides per kg of diet: vitamin A, 12,000 I.U; vitamin D3, 5000 I.U; vitamin E, 130.0 mg; vitamin K3, 3.605 mg; vitamin B1 (thiamin), 3.0 mg; vitamin B2 (riboflavin), 8.0 mg; vitamin B6, 4.950 mg; vitamin B12, 17.0 mg; niacin, 60.0 mg; D-biotin, 200.0 mg; calcium D-pantothenate, 18.333 mg; folic acid, 2.083 mg; manganese, 100.0 mg; iron, 80.0 mg; zinc, 80.0 mg; copper, 8.0 mg; iodine, 2.0 mg; cobalt, 500.0 mg; and selenium, 150.0 mg.