Table 1.

Ingredients and the composition of diets fed to Hubbard M99 Line A grandparent roosters.

	Diets*
Ingredients (g/kg)	Basal diet	Lecithin (1%)	Lecithin (2%)
Corn	600	600	600
Soybean meal (44% CP)	72.8	71.5	70.4
Wheat	72.0	40.7	30
Barley	90	90	62
Wheat bran	126.5	148.9	178.8
Premix⁎⁎	6	6	6
Oyster shell	14.8	15.2	15.4
Dicalcium phosphate	13.3	12.5	11.8
DL-methionine	0	0.5	0.5
Common salt	4.6	4.6	4.6
Lecithin	0	10	20
Contents by calculation
ME (kcal/kg)	2,800	2,800	2,800
CP (%)	12.22	12.20	12.22
Calcium (%)	0.90	0.90	0.90
Available P (%)	0.39	0.39	0.39
Methionine (SID) (%)	0.26	0.26	0.26
Lysine (SID) (%)	0.49	0.49	0.49
TSAA (SID) (%)	0.46	0.46	0.46

^⁎To prepare the diets containing vitamin E, 300 mg of vitamin E/kg was added to these diets.

^⁎⁎Supplied the following per kg of diet: vitamin A, 13,200 IU; vitamin D3, 4,200 IU; vitamin E, 120 IU; vitamin K3, 6 mg; niacin, 66 mg; riboflavin, 14.4 mg; thiamin, 3.0 mg; pantothenic acid, 18 mg; folic acid, 2.4 mg; pyridoxine, 4.8 mg; vitamin B12, 0.04 mg, and biotin, 0.3 mg. Fe (FeSO₄•H₂O), 60 mg; Mn (MnSO₄•H₂O), 148 mg; Zn (ZnO), 120 mg; Cu (CuSO₄•5H₂O), 12 mg; iodine (KI), 2.4 mg; and Se (Na₂SeO₃), 0.36 mg.