Table 1. Composition of the basal diet.
| Ingredient |
Amount (%) |
| Yellow corn |
30.0 |
| Barley |
10.0 |
| Soybean meal |
38.0 |
| Sunflower meal |
6.0 |
| Wheat bran |
10.0 |
| Molasses |
3.0 |
| Limestone |
1.5 |
| Salt |
0.8 |
| DL-Methionine |
0.3 |
| Dicalcium phosphate |
0.2 |
| Vitamin and mineral premix 1 |
0.2 |
| Analyses (%) |
|
| CP |
24.3 |
| Ether extract |
3.4 |
| Crude cellulose |
6.9 |
| Ash |
8.1 |
| Ca |
1.3 |
| P |
0.9 |
1The vitamin-mineral premix provides the following (per kg): all-trans-retinyl acetate, 1.8 mg; cholecalciferol, 0.025 mg; all-rac-a-tocopherol acetate, 12,5 mg; menadione (menadione sodium bisulfate), 1.1 mg; riboflavin, 4.4 mg; thiamine (thiamine mononitrate), 1.1 mg; vitamin B-6, 2.2 mg; niacin, 35 mg; Ca-pantothenate, 10 mg; vitamin B-12, 0.02 mg; folic acid, 0.55 mg; d-biotin, 0.1 mg. manganese (from manganese oxide), 40 mg; iron (from iron sulfate), 12.5 mg; zinc (from zinc oxide), 25 mg; copper (from copper sulfate), 3.5 mg; iodine (from potassium iodide), 0.3 mg; selenium (from sodium selenite), 0.15 mg; choline chloride, 175 mg
