TABLE 1.
Ingredients and chemical composition of basal diets (as fed basis)
| Items | Diets | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Grower | Finisher | |
| Ingredients (gram/100 gram, as fed) | |||
| Yellow corn | 53.4 | 58.0 | 61.3 |
| Soybean meal (44%) | 39.0 | 35.0 | 31.0 |
| Di‐calcium phosphate | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.3 |
| CaCO3 (38%) | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| Sunflower oil | 3.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 |
| Sodium chloride | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Methionine | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.15 |
| Lysine | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.15 |
| Premix* | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Chemical composition | |||
| ME (kcal/kg) | 2900 | 3000 | 3100 |
| Crude protein (%) | 22 | 20.5 | 19 |
| Calcium (%) | 1.05 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
| Available Phosphorus (%) | 0.5 | 0.45 | 0.4 |
| Sodium (%) | 0.19 | 0.19 | 0.19 |
| Lysine (%) | 1.31 | 1.25 | 1.14 |
| Methionine (%) | 0.54 | 0.48 | 0.44 |
| Threonine (%) | 0.85 | 0.81 | 0.75 |
| Tryptophan (%) | 0.25 | 0.22 | 0.2 |
*
Vitamin and mineral content per kilogram of premix: vitamin A: 3,600,000 IU; vitamin D3: 800,000 IU; vitamin E: 7200 IU; vitamin K3: 0.8 g; vitamin B1: 0.71 g; vitamin B2: 2.64 g; vitamin B3: 3.92 g, vitamin B5: 11.88 g; vitamin B6: 1.176 g; vitamin B12: 6 mg; folic acid: 0.4 g; biotin: 40 mg; choline chloride: 100 g; selenium: 80 mg; cobalt: 100 mg; iodine: 396 mg; copper:4 g; zinc: 33.88 g; iron: 20 g; manganese: 39.68 g.