Table 1.
Ingredients and nutrient contents of basal diet of growing Japanese quail.
| Items | (g/kg) |
|---|---|
| Ingredient | |
| Maize 8.5% | 518.0 |
| Soybean meal 44% | 367.0 |
| Maize gluten meal 62 % | 52.1 |
| Soybean oil | 29.0 |
| Limestone | 7.0 |
| Di-calcium phosphate | 16.5 |
| Salt | 3.0 |
| Premix1 | 3.0 |
| L-Lysine | 1.3 |
| Dl-Methionine | 1.1 |
| Choline chloride | 2.0 |
| Total | 1000 |
| Calculated composition2 | |
| Metabolizable energy (MJ/kg) | 12.53 |
| Crude protein (g/kg) | 240.0 |
| Calcium (g/kg) | 8.0 |
| Nonphytate phosphorus (g/kg) | 4.5 |
| Lysine (g/kg) | 13.0 |
| Total sulphur amino acids (g/kg) | 9.2 |
1
Provides per kg of diet: Vitamin A, 12,000 I.U; Vitamin D3, 5000 I.U; Vitamin E, 130.0 mg; Vitamin K3, 3.605 mg; Vitamin B1 (thiamin), 3.0 mg; Vitamin B2 (riboflavin), 8.0 mg; Vitamin B6, 4.950 mg; Vitamin B12, 17.0 mg; Niacin, 60.0 mg; D-Biotin, 200.0 mg; Calcium D-pantothenate, 18.333 mg; Folic acid, 2.083 mg; manganese, 100.0 mg; iron, 80.0 mg; zinc, 80.0 mg; copper, 8.0 mg; iodine, 2.0 mg; cobalt, 500.0 mg; and selenium, 150.0 mg.
2
Calculated according to NRC (1994).