Table 1.
Ingredient and nutrient composition of broiler chicken diets (dry matter basis, %).
| Ingredient | Content, % | Nutrient Level 3 | Content | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 35 d | 36 to 70 d | 1 to 35 d | 36 to 70 d | ||
| Corn | 59.00 | 65.00 | DE (Mcal/kg) | 3.00 | 3.12 |
| Soybean meal | 30.28 | 20.00 | Crude protein (%) | 21.26 | 16.32 |
| Cottonseed meal | 2.00 | 4.50 | Crude lipid (%) | 4.35 | 4.56 |
| Fish meal | 3.20 | - | Crude ash (%) | 6.08 | 5.93 |
| Wheat bran | - | 3.15 | Ca (%) | 0.97 | 0.88 |
| Soybean oil | 1.45 | 3.00 | Total P | 0.72 | 0.65 |
| Ca(H2PO4)2 | 1.05 | 1.10 | Available P (%) | 0.46 | 0.36 |
| Limestone | 1.50 | 1.70 | Lys (%) | 1.11 | 0.86 |
| Choline chloride | 0.10 | 0.10 | Met (%) | 0.53 | 0.41 |
| DL-Met | 0.18 | 0.15 | Met + Cys (%) | 0.86 | 0.69 |
| NaCl | 0.24 | 0.20 | Thr | 0.80 | 0.69 |
| NaHCO3 | - | 0.10 | |||
| Mineral premix 1 | 0.98 | 0.98 | |||
| Vitamin premix 2 | 0.02 | 0.02 | |||
| Total | 100.00 | 100.00 | |||
1 The mineral premix provided per kilogram of complete feed: Cu, 1.06 mg; Fe, 84.67 mg; Zn, 29.24 mg; Mn, 4.43 mg. 2 The vitamin premix provided per kilogram of complete feed: vitamin A, 6500 IU; vitamin D3, 2000 IU; vitamin E, 16 IU; vitamin K3, 2 mg; vitamin B1, 2 mg; vitamin B2, 5 mg; vitamin B6, 1.6 mg; vitamin B12, 0.015 mg; D-biotin, 0.12 mg; D-pantothenic acid, 10 mg; folic acid, 1 mg; nicotinamide, 20 mg. 3 The crude protein, crude lipid, and crude ash were measured value, and others were calculated value.