Table 1.

Ingredient and nutrient composition of experimental broiler diets

	Starter (1–21 d), g/kg	Grower (22–42 d), g/kg
Ingredient
Corn	593.1	604.2
Soybean meal	298.8	288.7
Cotton seed meal	50.0	30.0
Soybean oil	15.1	39.8
L-Lysine	1.5	0.9
DL-Methionine	1.4	1.6
Limestone	12.7	10.2
CaHPO4	19.4	16.6
NaCl	3.0	3.0
Choline chloride	2.0	2.0
Vitamin premix	0.3	0.3
Mineral premixa	1.0	1.0
Zeolite powder	1.7	1.7
Total	1000	1000
Nutrient concentrationsb
Metabolic energy, MJ/kg	12.35	13.02
Crude protein	211.8	198.4
Calcium	10.1	8.5
Available phosphorus	4.5	4.0
Total phosphorus	6.9	6.3
Lysine	11.4	10.5
Methionine	4.9	4.8
Methionine + Cysteine	8.3	8.1
Threonine	7.7	2.2

^aThe premix provided the following per kg diet: vitamin A 10, 000 IU, vitamin D₃ 2,000 IU, vitamin E 10 IU, vitamin K₃ 2.5 mg, vitamin B₁ 1 mg, vitamin B₂ 6 mg, vitamin B₃ 10 mg, vitamin B₅ 40 mg, vitamin B₆ 3 mg, vitamin B₁₁ 0.3 mg, vitamin B₁₂ 0.01 mg, biotin 0.12 mg, Cu (as copper sulfate) 8 mg, Fe (as ferrous sulfate) 80 mg, Mn (as manganese sulfate) 60 mg, Zn (as zinc sulfate) 40 mg, Se (as sodium selenite) 0.15 mg, I (as potassium iodide) 0.35 mg

^bCalculated values