Table 1.
Ingredients and calculated nutrient levels of experimental diets.
| Item | Quantity (%) |
|---|---|
| Ingredient | |
| Cereal grain (wheat or hulless barley)1 | 60.00 |
| Wheat (remaining) | 5.00 |
| Soybean meal | 26.93 |
| Canola oil | 4.07 |
| Mono-dicalcium phosphate | 1.20 |
| Limestone | 1.52 |
| Sodium chloride | 0.38 |
| Vitamin-mineral premix2 | 0.50 |
| Choline chloride | 0.10 |
| TiO2 | 0.30 |
| Nutrient, calculated | |
| AME (kcal/kg) | 3,100 |
| CP | 21.24 |
| Crude fat | 5.57 |
| Calcium | 0.87 |
| Chloride | 0.36 |
| Nonphytate phosphorous | 0.44 |
| Potassium | 0.83 |
| Sodium | 0.18 |
| Digestible arginine | 1.35 |
| Digestible isoleucine | 0.81 |
| Digestible leucine | 1.47 |
| Digestible lysine | 1.15 |
| Digestible methionine | 0.54 |
| Digestible methionine and cysteine | 0.87 |
| Digestible threonine | 0.77 |
| Digestible tryptophan | 0.24 |
| Digestible valine | 0.87 |
Wheat: total dietary fiber (TDF), 15.2; insoluble dietary fiber (IDF), 13.7; soluble dietary fiber (SDF), 1.6; total β-glucan, 0.68/hulless barley: TDF, 29.0; IDF, 19.6; SDF, 9.6; total β-glucan, 8.70 (% DM basis).
Vitamin-mineral premix provided the following per kilogram of the complete diet: vitamin A, 11,000 IU; vitamin D, 2,200 IU; vitamin E, 30 IU; menadione, 2 mg; thiamine, 1.5 mg; riboflavin, 6 mg; pyridoxine, 4 mg; vitamin B12, 0.02 mg; niacin, 60 mg; pantothenic acid, 10 mg; folic acid, 0.6 mg; biotin, 0.15 mg; copper, 10 mg; iron, 80 mg; manganese, 80 mg; iodine, 0.8 mg; zinc, 80 mg; selenium, 0.3 mg; calcium carbonate, 500 mg; ethoxyquin, 0.63 mg; wheat middlings, 3,773 mg.