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. 2022 Apr 6;13:36. doi: 10.1186/s40104-022-00686-3

Table 1.

Diet composition (as-fed basis)

Items Percentage, %
Ingredients, %
 Corn 60.52
 Soybean meal, 43% 16.00
 Soybean oil 1.00
 Apple pomace 10.50
 Soybean hull 8.50
 Calcium phosphate 1.70
 Limestone 0.94
 Lysine (70%) 0.01
 Threonine (99%) 0.02
 Mineral premixa 0.03
 Vitamin premixb 0.03
 Sodium chloride 0.50
 Choline (60%) 0.20
 Ethoxyquin (66%) 0.05
Total 100.00
Analyzed value
 Crude protein (CP), % 13.02
 Metabolic energy (ME), kcal/kgd 2700
 Standardized ileal digestibility (SID) lys, %d 0.57
 Lysine (Lys), % 0.66
 Methionine (Met) + cysteine (Cys), % 0.42
 Threonine (Thr), % 0.51
 Tryptophan (Trp), % 0.13
 Calcium (Ca), % 0.90
 Phosphorus (P), % 0.55

a Provided per kilograms of diet: vitamin A, 17,500 IU; vitamin D3, 5000 IU; vitamin E, 40 IU; vitamin K3, 5 mg; vitamin B1, 5 mg; vitamin B2, 12.5 mg; vitamin B6, 7.5 mg; vitamin B12, 0.05 mg; biotin, 0.2 mg; folic acid, 2 mg; niacin, 30 mg; D-calcium pantothenate, 25 mg;

b Provided per kg diet: Fe, 100 mg as ferrous sulfate; Cu, 17 mg as copper sulfate; Mn, 40 mg as manganese oxide; Zn, 100 mg as zinc oxide; I, 0.25 mg as potassium iodide; and Se, 0.25 mg as sodium selenite

c Mycotoxin biodegradation agent (MBA) was added at the expense of corn

d Calculated values