Table 1.
Ingredient and nutrient composition of the basal diet.
| Ingredients | g per 100 g of Diet |
|---|---|
| Corn | 41.00 |
| Soybean meal, 45% crude protein | 10.41 |
| Wheat | 12.80 |
| Animal fat | 1.02 |
| Rice bran | 2.00 |
| Corn steep liquor | 1.00 |
| Rapeseed meal | 3.00 |
| Dried distillers grains with solubles | 12.83 |
| Molasses | 2.00 |
| Liquid choline, 50% | 0.06 |
| Limestone | 10.51 |
| Monodicalcium phosphate | 1.02 |
| NaCl | 0.24 |
| Variable | 1.59 |
| Methionine, 100% | 0.07 |
| Lysine, 54% | 0.10 |
| Tryptophan, 10% | 0.10 |
| Mineral mix 1 | 0.14 |
| Vitamin mix 2 | 0.12 |
| Total | 100.00 |
| Nutrient composition, g/100 g | |
| Nitrogen-corrected apparent metabolizable energy, kcal/kg | 2600 |
| Dry matter 3 | 88.20 |
| Crude protein 3 | 14.49 |
| Crude fat 3 | 4.01 |
| Crude ash 3 | 14.84 |
| Calcium 4 | 4.10 |
| Sulfur 3 | 0.15 |
| Available phosphorus 4 | 0.28 |
| Total lysine 4 | 0.65 |
| Total methionine 4 | 0.32 |
| Total methionine + cysteine 4 | 0.60 |
| Methyl sulfonyl methane 3 | 0.03 |
1 Mineral mixture provided the following nutrients per kg of diet: Fe (FeSO4.H2O), 50 mg; Cu (CuSO4.H2O), 24 mg; Zn (ZnSO4.H2O), 90 mg; Mn (MnSO4.H2O), 96 mg; I (Ca(IO3)2), 1.2 mg. 2 Vitamin mixture provided the following nutrients per kg of diet: vitamin A, 15,400 IU; vitamin D3, 3080 IU; vitamin E, 14 mg; vitamin K3, 1.4 mg; vitamin B1, 1.12 mg; vitamin B2, 2.8 mg; vitamin B6, 3.92 mg; vitamin B12, 0.014 mg. 3 Analyzed value. 4 Calculated value.