Table 2.
Ingredients and nutrient composition of the basal diet.
| Items | Composition (%) |
|---|---|
| Ingredients | |
| Corn | 50.0 |
| Tallow | 0.900 |
| Corn dried distillers’ grains with solubles | 21.2 |
| Soybean meal | 7.42 |
| Rapeseed meal | 5.00 |
| Sesame seed oil meal | 2.00 |
| Feather meal | 1.50 |
| Syn. Lys-sulfate | 0.38 |
| Syn. Met (liq.) | 0.105 |
| Syn. Thr | 0.026 |
| Limestone | 10.20 |
| Mono dicalcium phosphate | 0.590 |
| Salt | 0.200 |
| Sodium bicarbonate | 0.100 |
| Vitamin premix 1 | 0.110 |
| Mineral premix 2 | 0.180 |
| Choline-chloride (50%) | 0.049 |
| Calculated nutrient composition | |
| Crude protein, % | 17.0 |
| Crude fat, % | 5.30 |
| Crude fiber, % | 3.70 |
| Ca, % | 4.00 |
| Available P, % | 0.270 |
| Lys, % | 0.830 |
| TSAA 3, % | 0.720 |
| TMEn 4, kcal/kg | 2800 |
1 Vitamin premix provided followings per kg of diet: vitamin A, 40,000 IU; vitamin D3, 8000 IU; vitamin E, 10 IU; vitamin K3, 4 mg; vitamin B1, 4 mg; vitamin B2, 12 mg; vitamin B6, 6 mg; vitamin B12, 0.02 mg; pantothenic acid, 20 mg; folic acid, 2 mg; nicotinic, 60 mg. 2 Mineral premix provided followings per kg of diet: Fe, 30 mg; Zn, 25 mg; Mn, 20 mg; Co, 0.15 mg; Cu, 5 mg; Se, 0.1 mg. 3 TSAA: Total sulfur amino acid. 4 TMEn: Nitrogen corrected true metabolizable energy.