TABLE 1.
Ingredients and chemical composition of experimental diets (as-fed basis).
| Items | Content (%) |
| Ingredients | |
| Corn | 55.00 |
| Soybean meal | 19.00 |
| Full-fat soybean powder | 10.00 |
| Fish meal | 5.00 |
| Whey powder | 6.15 |
| Soybean oil | 1.50 |
| Dicalcium phosphate | 0.90 |
| L-Lysine-HCl | 0.48 |
| L-Threonine | 0.05 |
| DL-Methionine | 0.10 |
| L-Tryptophan | 0.02 |
| Salt | 0.30 |
| Limestone | 0.50 |
| Premixa | 1.00 |
| Total | 100.00 |
| Calculated nutrients | |
| Digestible energy (MJ/kg) | 14.64 |
| Crude protein | 20.15 |
| Lysine | 1.38 |
| Methionine | 0.82 |
| Methionine + cysteine | 1.01 |
| Threonine | 0.97 |
| Tryptophan | 0.25 |
| Calcium | 0.80 |
| Total phosphorus | 0.73 |
aThe premix provided the following (per kilogram of compound feed): Vitamin A, 12,000 IU; Vitamin D, 2,500 IU; Vitamin E, 30 IU; Vitamin B12, 12 μg; Vitamin K, 3 mg; d-pantothenic acid, 15 mg; nicotinic acid, 40 mg; choline chloride, 400 mg; Mn, 40 mg; Zn, 100 mg; Fe, 90 mg; Cu, 8.8 mg; I, 0.35 mg; Se, 0.3 mg.