Table 1 Composition (% as-fed basis) of the experimental diet

Ingredients Amount
Corn 45.08
Wheat 5.90
Wheat bran 6.22
Soybean meal 48% 36.00
Vegetable oil 2.80
Limestone 1.50
Monocalcium phosphorus 1.70
Salt 0.30
Vit-min premix1 0.30
DL-methionine 0.20
Calculated values2 ME (kcal/kg) 3,200
CP (%) 23
NDF (%) 10.9
Ca (%) 1.1
Avail. P (%) 0.4
Lys (%) 1.3
Met (%) 0.5
Met+Cys (%) 0.9
Thr (%) 0.9
Trp (%) 0.3
Val (%) 1.1
1 Supplied per kilogram of total diets: Fe (FeSO4H2O), 80 mg; Zn (ZnSO4H2O), 80 mg; Mn (MnSO4H2O) 80 mg; Co (CoSO4H2O) 0.5 mg; Cu (CuSO4H2O) 10 mg; Se (Na2SeO3) 0.2 mg; I, (Ca(IO3)2H2O) 0.9 mg; vitamin A, 24,000 IU; vitamin D3, 6,000 IU; vitamin E, 30 IU; vitamin K, 4 mg; thiamin, 4 mg; riboflavin, 12 mg; pyridoxine, 4 mg; folacine, 2 mg; biotin, 0.03 mg; vitamin B8, 0.06 mg; niacin, 90 mg; pantothenic acid, 30 mg.2 The values were calculated according to the values of feedstuffs in NRC (1994).