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. 2021 Nov 24;11(12):3351. doi: 10.3390/ani11123351

Table 1.

Composition of basal diets (as-fed basis).

Item Treatment 1
NC PC
Ingredients, %
Corn, yellow dent 53.91 55.05
Soybean meal, 48% CP 34.00 34.00
Corn DDGS 2 4.00 4.00
Poultry meal 2.00 2.00
Dicalcium phosphate 2.00 1.02
Poultry fat 1.40 1.00
Limestone, ground 0.77 1.03
Titanium dioxide 0.40 0.40
DL-Met 0.32 0.31
Salt 0.30 0.30
L-Lys HCl 0.24 0.24
Choline, 60% 0.20 0.20
Mineral premix 3 0.15 0.15
Selenium premix 0.10 0.10
L-Thr 0.08 0.07
Phytase premix 4 0.08 0.08
Vitamin premix 5 0.05 0.05
Calculated composition
ME 6, kcal/kg 3000 3000
CP 7, % 23.00 23.00
Digestible Lys, % 1.28 1.28
Digestible Met + Cys, % 0.95 0.95
Ca 8, % 0.96 0.81
p 9 available, % 0.48 0.33
p total, % 0.82 0.65
Analyzed composition
DM 10, % 88.4 ± 0.4 88.4 ± 0.4
CP, % 23.2 ± 0.3 23.3 ± 0.4
Ca, % 1.08 ± 0.02 0.90 ± 0.10
Phytate 11, % 0.32 ± 0.01 0.37 ± 0.02
Total p, % 0.86 ± 0.02 0.67 ± 0.01

1 NC: no phytase, diet meeting nutrient requirements by Ross Nutrient Specification (2019); PC: no phytase, diet with Ca 0.15% and P with 0.15% lower than Ross Nutrient Specification (2019) requirements; 2 DDGS: corn distillers dried grains with soluble; 3 The trace mineral premix provided per kilogram of complete diet: 33 mg of Mn as manganous oxide, 110 mg of Fe as ferrous sulfate, 110 mg of Zn as zinc sulfate, 16.5 mg of Cu as copper sulfate, 0.30 mg of I as ethylenediamine dihydroiodide, and 0.30 mg of Se, as sodium selenite; 4 Phytase enzyme mixed with corn; 5 The vitamin premix provided per kilogram of complete diet: 6614 IU of vitamin A as vitamin A acetate, 992 IU of vitamin D3, 19.8 IU of vitamin E, 2.64 mg of vitamin K as menadione sodium bisulfate, 0.03 mg of vitamin B12, 4.63 mg of riboflavin, 18.52 mg of D-pantothenic acid as calcium panthonate, 24.96 mg of niacin, and 0.07 mg of biotin; 6 Metabolizable energy; 7 Crude protein; 8 Calcium; 9 Phosphorus; 10 Dry matter; 11 Phytate analysis was performed using the Megazyme kit K-PHYT 05/19 (Megazyme, Bray Business Park, Bray, Co. Wicklow, A98 YV29, Ireland).