Table 1.
Composition of experimental starter, grower, and finisher diets (g/kg diet) and the calculated chemical analysis of the basal diet.
| Ingredients | Diet | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Grower | Finisher | |
| Yellow corn | 542 | 558.8 | 606 |
| Soybean meal (44%) | 319 | 281 | 253.3 |
| Corn gluten meal (60%) | 71 | 81 | 48.1 |
| Vegetable oil | 29.8 | 41 | 54.4 |
| Limestone 1 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| Monocalcium phosphate 2 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| Common salt | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Mineral Premix 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Vitamin Premix 3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Methionine 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Lysine 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Anti-coccidial 6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Antimould 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Calculated analysis | |||
| Crude protein (CP, %) | 23.1 | 22.18 | 19.39 |
| Metabolizable energy (ME, Kcal/kg diet) 8 | 3053 | 3160.7 | 3252.6 |
| Calorie/protein ratio 9 | 132.16 | 142.5 | 167.7 |
1 Limestone contains 36% calcium. 2 Monocalcium phosphate contains 22% phosphorus and 16% calcium. 3 Mineral and Vitamin premix was produced by Heropharm and composed (per 3 kg) of vitamin A 12,000,000 IU, vitamin D3 2,500,000 IU, vitamin E 15,000 IU, vitamin K3 1000 mg, vitamin B1 1000 mg, vitamin B2 3000 mg, vitamin B6 1500 mg, vitamin B12 13.3 mg, niacin 30,000mg, biotin 50 mg, folic acid 600 mg, pantothenic acid 10,000 mg, Mn: 60,000 mg, Zn: 50,000 mg, Fe: 30,000 mg, Cu: 4000 mg, I: 300 mg, Se: 100 mg and Co:100 mg. 4 DL-Methionine (Produced by Evonic Co. Birmingham, AL, Germany and contain 99% methionine), 5 Lysine (lysine hydrochloride contains 98 % Lysine). 6 Kill Cox® (produced by Arabian Company for Pharmaceutical Industries, 7 Antimould produced by EL-TOBA CO. For Premixes & Feed El-Sadat city Egypt). 8 ME calculated according to NRC (1994), 9 Calorie/protein ratio = ME Kcal/CP%.