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. 2021 Jun 23;34(11):1822–1828. doi: 10.5713/ab.21.0102

Table 2.

Ingredient and nutrient compositions of experimental diets used in Exp. 1, as-fed basis

Items Corn Meat meal Fish meal Soybean meal
Ingredient composition (%)
 Corn 97.7 76.1 77.1 67.9
 Meat meal - 23.0 - -
 Fish meal - - 22.0 -
 Soybean meal, 47% crude protein - - - 30.0
 Limestone 0.7 - - 0.6
 Dicalcium phosphate 0.7 - - 0.6
 Salt 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4
 Vitamin-trace mineral premix1) 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Chemical composition
 Gross energy (kcal/kg) 3,832 3,975 4,020 3,949
 Crude protein (%) 8.1 20.1 20.2 19.9
 Ether extract (%) 3.81 5.73 5.07 3.55
 Calcium (%) 0.50 1.84 1.22 0.52
 Available phosphorus (%) 0.17 0.83 0.66 0.19
1)

Supplied per kg of complete diet: vitamin A, 11,128 IU; vitamin D3, 2,204 IU; vitamin E, 66 IU; vitamin K, 1.42 mg; thiamin, 0.24 mg; riboflavin, 6.58 mg; pyridoxine, 0.24 mg; vitamin B12, 0.03 mg; D-pantothenic acid, 23.5 mg; niacin, 44 mg; folic acid, 1.58 mg; biotin, 0.44 mg; Cu, 10 mg as copper sulfate; Fe, 125 mg as iron sulfate; I, 1.26 mg as potassium iodate; Mn, 60 mg as manganese sulfate; Se, 0.3 mg as sodium selenite; and Zn, 100 mg as zinc oxide.