Table 1.
Ingredients and chemical composition of the diets
| Diet1 | |
|---|---|
| Item | CON |
| Ingredients, g/kg DM | |
| Alfalfa hay | 400 |
| Barley | 170 |
| Corn | 60 |
| Soybean meal (46% CP) | 65 |
| Corn gluten feed (21% CP) | 90 |
| Sunflower meal (28% CP) | 10 |
| DDGS maize | 30 |
| Rapeseed expeller | 36 |
| Wheat bran | 97 |
| Molasses beet | 12 |
| Fat hydrogen | 3 |
| Bypass fat2 | 11 |
| Sodium bicarbonate | 6 |
| Sodium chloride | 2 |
| Limestone | 5 |
| Premix3 | 2 |
| Chemical composition, % of DM | |
| DM | 94 |
| OM | 89 |
| Ash | 11 |
| CP | 18 |
| Ether extract | 4 |
| NDF | 34 |
| ADF | 17 |
| ADL | 3 |
| NFC4 | 33 |
| Starch | 21 |
| Carbon | 39 |
| Nitrogen | 3 |
| Carbon:nitrogen | 13 |
| Gross energy, MJ/kg DM | 18 |
1Provided by de HEUS Nutrición Animal SAU, España. CON, control.
2Bypass fat of palm fatty acid distillate.
3Provided by NACOOP S.A. (Spain) to supply (ppm or IU/kg of premix): Se, 40 mg/kg; I, 250 mg/kg; Co, 80 mg/kg; Cu, 3,000 mg/kg; Fe, 6,000 mg/kg; Zn, 23,400 mg/kg; Mn, 29,000 mg/kg; S, 60,000 mg/kg; Mg, 60,000 mg/kg; vitamin A, 2,000,000 IU/kg; vitamin D3, 400,000 IU/kg; vitamin E, 2,000 ppm; nicotinic acid, 10,000 ppm; choline, 20,300 ppm.
4NFC, nonfibrous carbohydrate content = 100 − (NDF + ash + CP + ether extract).