Table 1. Feed ingredients and calculated nutrient composition of the basal diet¹

Items	%
Feed ingredients
Corn	55.70
Wheat bran	2.02
Soybean meal, 44%	26.90
Vegetable oil	1.65
Beef tallow	1.18
Limestone	9.57
Mono-calcium phosphate	1.85
Iodized salt	0.50
DL-Methionine	0.21
Lysine-HCl	0.12
Vitamin-mineral premix2	0.30
Calculated nutrient composition (%)
ME, kcal/kg	2,850
Crude protein	17.01
Crude fat	2.31
Linoleic acid	2.00
Crude fiber	3.37
Calcium	4.20
Total P	0.80
Available P	0.49
Linoleic acid	2.00
Calculated SID amino acid values
Lysine	0.89
Methionine	0.44
Methionine + cysteine	0.74
Threonine	0.56
Tryptophan	0.17
Arginine	0.84
Isoleucine	0.61
Valine	0.70

ME, metabolizable energy; P, phosphorus; SID, standardized ileal digestible.
Provided per kilogram of diet: vitamin A, 12,000,000 IU; vitamin D₃, 3,000,000 IU; vitamin E, 21,000 mg/kg; vitamin K₃, 2,400 mg/kg; D-pantothenic acid, 10,000 mg/kg; niacin 15,000 mg/kg; folic acid, 300 mg/kg; vitamin B₁, 1,200 mg/kg; vitamin B₂, 4,800 mg/kg; vitamin B₆, 2,400 mg/kg; vitamin B₁₂, 20 mg/kg; Fe, 24,000 mg/kg from iron sulphate; Cu, 4,500 mg/kg from copper sulphate; Zn, 60,000 mg/kg from zinc oxide; Mn, 72,000 mg/kg from manganese oxide; I, 1,000 mg/kg from potassium iodide; Se, 200 mg/kg from sodium selenite; Co, 150 mg/kg from cobalt carbonate.