Table 1.
Proximate analysis and dietary analyses of chloride, sodium, selected B-vitamins and amino acids of two experimental diets: a control diet and a high choline diet (DMB).
| Control Diet | High Choline Diet | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Moisture | % as fed | 5.60 | 5.05 |
| Protein | % DM | 35.53 | 36.70 |
| Fat | % DM | 19.81 | 16.75 |
| Ash | % DM | 6.43 | 6.47 |
| Crude Fibre | % DM | 2.75 | 3.58 |
| NFE 1 | % DM | 35.48 | 36.50 |
| ME 2 | kcal/100g | 414.31 | 400.43 |
| Chloride | % DM | 0.77 | 1.33 |
| Sodium | % DM | 0.55 | 0.59 |
| Choline | mg/100 g | 458.69 | 1895.73 |
| Cobalamine (B12) | μg/100g | 8.47 | 10.53 |
| Folate (B9) | mg/100g | 0.32 | 0.42 |
| Pyridoxine (B6) | mg/100g | 1.02 | 1.37 |
| Methionine | % DM | 0.94 | 0.94 |
| Cysteine | % DM | 0.48 | 0.47 |
DMB: dry matter basis; NFE: nitrogen free extract; ME: metabolizable energy Values reported on DMB, except for moisture; 1 NFE (%) = 100 – moisture − protein – fat – fibre − ash; 2 Estimated by a four-step calculation [19]. Ingredients: chicken meal, brewer’s rice, corn gluten meal, whole corn, chicken, poultry fat, whole oat flour, yellow pea hulls, whole dried egg, dried chicken, beet pulp, salmon oil, potassium chloride, sodium chloride, choline chloride, DL-methionine, taurine, vitamin and mineral premix, and yucca extract.