Table A1.

Composition and nutrient levels of the basal diet.

Ingredients	Content	Nutrient Levels	Content
Corn (%)	29.70	Digestible energy (Mcal/kg)	3.54
Extruded corn (%)	30.00	Crude protein (%)	20.0
Soybean oil (%)	1.39	Calcium (%)	0.75
Sucrose (%)	2.50	Available P (%)	0.37
Whey power (%)	5.00	Digestible Lys (%)	1.31
Dehulled soybean meal (%)	7.50	Digestible Met (%)	0.39
Extruded soybean (%)	10.00	Digestible Thr (%)	0.78
Soybean protein concentrate (%)	6.46	Digestible Trp (%)	0.21
Fish meal (%)	5.00
L-Lysine·HCl (%)	0.43
DL-Methionine (%)	0.09
L-Threonine (%)	0.16
L-Tryptophan (%)	0.02
Choline chloride (%)	0.10
Calcium powder (%)	0.66
Dicalcium phosphate (%)	0.34
NaCl (%)	0.30
Vitamin premix a (%)	0.05
Mineral premix b (%)	0.30
Total	100.00

^a The vitamin premix provides per kg of diet: VA 8000 IU; VD3 2000 IU; VE 20 IU; VB1 1.5 mg; VB2 5.6 mg; VB12 0.02 mg; VB6 1.5 mg; calcium pantotenate 10 mg; nicotinic acid 15 mg; biotin 0.1 mg; folic acid 0.6 mg. ^b The mineral premix provides per kg of diet: Cu (CuSO₄.5H₂O) 6 mg; Fe (FeSO₄.H₂O) 100 mg; Zn (ZnSO₄.7H₂O) 100 mg; Mn (MnSO₄) 4 mg; I (KI) 0.14 mg; Se (Na₂SeO₃) 0.3 mg.