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. 2021 Mar 23;99(5):skab090. doi: 10.1093/jas/skab090

Table 5.

Phase 3 common diet composition, experiment 2 (as-fed basis)1

Ingredient %
 Corn 65.47
 Soybean meal, 46.8% CP 28.30
 Choice white grease 2.00
 Calcium carbonate 0.75
 Monocalcium phosphate, 21% P 1.10
 Sodium chloride 0.60
l-Lysine-HCl 0.55
dl-Methionine 0.25
l-Threonine 0.23
l-Tryptophan 0.05
l-Valine 0.16
 Trace mineral premix2 0.15
 Vitamin premix with phytase3 0.25
 Pellet stabilizer4 0.15
Total 100
Calculated analysis
Standardized digestible (SID) amino acids, %
 Lysine 1.30
 Isoleucine:lysine 53
 Leucine:lysine 111
 Methionine:lysine 39
 Met and cysteine:lysine 60
 Threonine:lysine 63
 Tryptophan:lysine 19.3
 Valine:lysine 70
 Histidine:lysine 35
Total lysine, % 1.41
Metabolizable energy, kcal/kg 3,318
Net energy, kcal/kg 2,534
CP, % 19.9
Calcium, % 0.65
Available phosphorus, % 0.44
STTD P5, % 0.48

1Phase 3 common diets were fed only to group 2 from days 13 to 27.

2Provided per kilogram of premix: 73 g Zn from Zn oxide; 73 g Fe from iron sulfate; 22 g Mn from manganese oxide; 11 g Cu from copper sulfate; 0.2 g I from calcium iodate; 0.2 g Se from sodium selenite.

3Ronozyme HiPhos GT (DSM Nutritional Products, Parsippany, NJ) provided an expected P release of 0.15%. Provided per kilogram of premix: 3,527,399 IU vitamin A; 881,850 IU vitamin D; 17,637 IU vitamin E; 1,764 mg vitamin K; 15.4 mg vitamin B12; 33,069 mg niacin; 11,023 mg pantothenic acid; 3,307 mg riboflavin.

4Alltech All-Bind HD (Alltech, Nicholasville, KY).

5STTD P = standardized total tract digestible phosphorus.