Table 1.

The composition and nutritional values of the basal diet (% dry matter).

Ingredient	Content (%)	Nutrient	%
Corn	56.4	Metabolic energy (ME)	10.98 MJ/Kg
Soybean meal	26.2	Crude protein	17.04
Wheat bran	2.4	Crude fat	3.47
Corn germ meal	3.5	Crude fibre	2.68
Lard	0.8	Calcium	3.4
Limestone (fine)	2.3	Total phosphorus	0.63
Limestone (coarse)	6	Available phosphorus	0.37
Dicalcium phosphate	1.34	Lysine	0.86
Sodium chloride	0.24	Methionine	0.39
Choline chloride	0.12
Vitamin premix1 + mineral premix2	0.7
Total	100

¹Vitamin premix supplied (per kg of diet): Vitamin A, 6,000 IU; Vitamin D₃, 1,500 IU; Vitamin K₃, 4.2 mg; Vitamin B₁, 3 mg; Vitamin B₂, 10.2 mg; Vitamin E, 0.0 mg, Folic acid, 0.9 mg; Calcium pantothenate, 15 mg; Niacin 45 mg; Vitamin B₆, 5.4 mg; Vitamin B₁₂, 24 μg; Biotin 150 μg.

²Mineral premix provided (per kg of diet): Cu (CuSO₄·5H₂O), 6.8 mg; Fe (FeSO₄·7H2O), 66 mg; Zn (ZnSO₄·7H₂O), 83 mg; Mn (MnSO₄·H₂O), 80 mg; I (KI), 1 mg; Se (Na₂SeO₃), 0.3 mg.