Table 1.
Ingredient composition (g/kg as-fed basis, unless stated otherwise) of experimental diets.
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1Experimental diets |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SW0 | SW20 | SW25 | SW30 | SW35 | |
| Seaweed meal | 0.0 | 20.0 | 25.0 | 30.0 | 35.0 |
| Yellow maize, 8% | 630.3 | 643.7 | 647.3 | 648.1 | 648.8 |
| Extruded full-fat soya | 120.0 | 81.1 | 61.5 | 46.6 | 31.9 |
| Soya oil cake, 47% | 176.6 | 192.8 | 203.0 | 207.5 | 211.9 |
| Sunflower oil cake, 36% | 30.0 | 30.0 | 31.6 | 36.6 | 41.5 |
| Limestone | 11.9 | 9.7 | 9.1 | 8.5 | 7.9 |
| Monocalcium phosphate | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.3 |
| Fine salt | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Sodium bicarbonate | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| DL-Methionine | 2.8 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 2.9 |
| L-Threonine | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.0 |
| Lysine HCL | 2.7 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.4 |
| Crude soya oil mixer | 7.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Lignobond | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| BSGF | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| AxtraPhy10000 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Salinomycin, 12% | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Zinc bacitracin | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
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Experimental diets: SW0 = commercial grower diet without seaweed meal; SW20 = commercial grower diet with seaweed meal at a rate of 20 g/kg; SW25 = commercial grower diet with seaweed meal at a rate of 25 g/kg; SW30 = commercial grower diet with seaweed meal at a rate of 30 g/kg; SW35 = commercial grower diet with seaweed meal at a rate of 35 g/kg.