Table 1.

Ingredients and chemical compositions of diets for donor animals.

Ingredients (%)		Chemical composition
Chinese wildrye	43.0	${\text{NE}}_{\text{L}}^{\text{b}}$, MJ/kg dry matter (DM)	5.40
Corn silage	16.0	Crude protein, %DM	14.4
Corn	13.0	Neural detergent fiber, %DM	49.2
Wheat bran	4.0	Acid detergent fiber, %DM	30.6
Molasses	1.0	Ca, %DM	0.60
Soybean meal	3.0	P, %DM	0.40
Dried distillers grain	5.0
Cottonseed meal	2.0
Corn gluten feed	7.5
Corn germ meal	5.0
Premixa	0.5
Total	100.0

^a Contained the following per kg of the premix: V_A 8,000,000 IU, V_D 700,000 IU, V_E 10,000 IU, Fe 1,600 mg, Cu 1,500 mg, Zn 10,000 mg, Mn 3,500 mg, Se 80 mg, I 120 mg, Co 50 mg.

^b NE_L is a calculated value and other nutrient levels are measured values.