Table 1. Feed ingredients and chemical composition of diets

Ingredient (%, as-fed basis) Starter Finisher
 Corn 50.00 56.00
 Soybean meal 37.00 28.84
 Corn gluten meal 0.50 1.00
 Wheat 10% 6.00 7.00
 Limestone-small 2.03 1.92
 Salt-Proc 0.25 0.25
 DCP 18% 0.40 0.46
 L-Lys sulfate 70% 0.30 0.18
 Minemix1) 0.20 0.20
 Vitamix2) 0.05 0.05
 L-Threonine 98% - 0.01
 MHA-Liquid 0.26 0.29
 Sunphase5000FTU 0.01 0.01
 Soybean oil 3.00 3.80
 Total 100.00 100.00
Calculated composition (%DM)
 ME (kcal/kg) 3,090.97 3,207.91
 Crude protein (%) 22.04 19.00
 Crude fat (%) 5.35 6.23
 Crude ash (%) 5.71 5.26
 Crude fibre (%) 2.59 2.39
 Ca (%) 1.09 1.04
 Phosphorus (%) 0.45 0.43
 Lysine (%) 1.34 1.07
 Methionine (%) 0.57 0.55
Vitamin–mineral mixture provided the following nutrients per kilogram of diet: vitamin A 12,061.00 IU (starter) and 12,122.00 IU (finisher); vitamin D3 3,000.00 IU; vitamin E 28.06 ppm (starter) and 29.35 ppm (finisher); vitamin K 2.10 ppm (starter) and 2.11 ppm (finisher); choline chloride 1,329.10 ppm (starter) and 1,146.20 ppm (finisher); copper 73.02 ppm (starter) and 72.07 ppm (finisher); manganese 77.92 ppm (starter) and 75.80 ppm (finisher); zinc 73.75 ppm (starter) and 71.57 ppm (finisher); iodine 0.94 ppm; selenium 0.30 ppm; iron 148.63 ppm (starter) and 4,141.21 ppm (finisher).