Table 1.
Ingredients and nutrient levels of basal diets (%, as air-dry basis).
| Items | Content |
|---|---|
| Ingredient | |
| Maize | 63.00 |
| Soybean meal | 22.00 |
| Soybean oil | 2.50 |
| Dicalcium phosphate | 1.50 |
| Limestone | 8.00 |
| Premix1 | 3.00 |
| Nutrient composition2 | |
| Metabolic energy (MJ/kg) | 11.62 |
| Crude protein | 15.31 |
| Lysine | 0.75 |
| Methionine | 0.35 |
| Calcium | 3.66 |
| Available phosphorus | 0.41 |
1
The premix provided the following (per kilogram of diet): sodium chloride, 2 g; calcium, 2.6 g; iron, 40 mg; copper, 8 mg; zinc, 80 mg; manganese, 90 mg; selenium, 0.2 mg; iodine, 750 mg; choline, 55,000 mg; vitamin A, 8,000 IU; vitamin D3, 3,000 IU; vitamin E, 20 mg; vitamin K, 2.5 mg; niacin, 30 mg; pantothenate, 8 mg; folacin, 1 mg; vitamin B1, 2.5 mg; vitamin B2, 5.5 mg; vitamin B6, 4 mg; vitamin B12, 20 μg.
2
Chinise Feed Database (2019) was used for calculation.