Table 1.

Composition and calculated nutrient levels of the basal diet (air-dry basis).

Items	Content
Ingredients (g/kg)
Corn	570.0
Soybean meal (43% crude protein)	220.0
Rice bran meal	50.0
Puffing maize powder	50.0
broken	50.0
Fish meal	20.0
Sucrose	10.0
Calcium lactate	3.00
Zinc oxide	2.00
Acidifier	4.00
Limestone	2.20
Monocalcium phosphate	10.0
Antioxidants	1.50
Lysine (98%)	4.00
Methionine	1.00
Threonine	1.00
Vitamin premixa	0.30
Mineral premixa	1.00
Total	1000
Nutrient contentb
Digestible energy (kcal/kg)	3274.5
Crude protein (%)	17.10
Calcium (%)	0.43
Total phosphorus (%)	0.63
Available phosphorus (%)	0.36
Lysine (%)	1.22
Methionine (%)	0.38
Methionine + cysteine (%)	0.66

^aProvided per kilogram of diet: vitamin A, 8,000 IU; vitamin D₃, 2,000 IU; vitamin E, 300 mg; vitamin K, 30 mg; vitamin B₁, 30 mg; vitamin B₂, 60 mg; vitamin B₆, 30 mg; biotin, 0.2 mg; folic acid, 10 mg; niacin, 300 mg; pantothenic acid, 300 mg; Cu ($CuS{O}_{\mathit{\text{4}}}^{.}$5H₂O), 12 mg; Fe ($FeS{O}_{\mathit{\text{4}}}^{.}$7H₂O), 150 mg; Mn ($MnS{O}_{\mathit{\text{4}}}^{.}$H₂O), 5 mg; Se (NaSeO₃), 0.45 mg; Zn (ZnO), 150 mg.

^bBased on the composition of ingredients provided by the NRC (2012).