Table 2.

Analysed chemical composition of experimental diets (% DM).¹

Item	Starter, d 0 to 12		Grower, d 13 to 24		Finisher, d 25to 35
	Wheat	Maize	Wheat	Maize	Wheat	Maize
Dry matter	88.4	88.0	88.8	89.6	89.3	88.7
Gross energy, kcal/kg	3893.4	3907.7	4348.7	4404.2	4524.9	4543.5
Crude protein2	24.8	25.0	21.6	22.3	21.2	21.3
Ash	6.8	7.7	6.4	5.9	5.7	6.0
Crude fat (hexane extract)	4.2	3.5	4.9	4.7	5.6	5.1
Total starch	47.2	44.4	49.6	48.1	48.9	49.2
Klason lignin	1.6	1.2	1.5	1.3	1.6	1.4
Oligosaccharides	4.6	4.8	4.5	4.3	4.1	4.2
Total NSP3	13.75	12.00	11.33	10.90	9.81	10.40
Soluble
Rhamnose	0.004	0.003	0.005	0.003	0.004	0.005
Fucose	0.006	0.006	0.005	0.005	0.003	0.005
Ribose	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.03
Arabinose	0.38	0.13	0.34	0.10	0.51	0.11
Xylose	0.46	0.04	0.41	0.04	0.64	0.06
Mannose	0.14	0.13	0.23	0.16	0.19	0.27
Galactose	0.22	0.17	0.23	0.15	0.22	0.16
Glucose	0.10	0.06	0.16	0.06	0.18	0.13
Uronic acid	0.25	0.31	0.15	0.22	0.15	0.18
Total soluble	1.42	0.79	1.39	0.68	1.72	0.86
Insoluble
Rhamnose	0.06	0.08	0.05	0.09	0.06	0.06
Fucose	0.11	0.13	0.10	0.12	0.08	0.10
Ribose	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.03
Arabinose	2.89	2.19	2.18	2.00	1.84	1.96
Xylose	3.06	2.09	2.54	2.03	1.91	1.90
Mannose	0.25	0.24	0.22	0.17	0.17	0.20
Galactose	1.78	2.09	1.42	1.80	1.17	1.75
Glucose	2.68	2.54	2.48	2.45	2.48	2.32
Uronic acid	2.38	3.13	2.11	2.74	1.53	2.34
Total insoluble	12.33	11.21	9.94	10.22	8.11	9.53

¹Samples were analysed in duplicates.

²Crude Protein = N × 6.25.

³NSP, non-starch polysaccharides.