Table 1. Ingredients and nutrient compositions of the basal diet

Item	Grower phase (day 1 to 21)	Finisher phase (day 21 to 35)
Ingredient composition (%)
Corn	57.20	52.53
Soybean meal (crude protein, 45%)	27.09	26.48
Rice bran	-	3
Corn gluten meal	3.38	3
Corn dried distillers’ grains with solubles	3	3
Tallow	3	5
Rapeseed meal	2	2
Wheat bran	-	1.25
Limestone	1.69	1.79
Monocalcium phosphate	1.16	0.91
L-Lysine HCl 78%	0.38	0.19
DL-Methionine 98%	0.36	0.17
Salt	0.25	0.25
Choline-Cl 50%	0.09	0.04
Mineral premix1)	0.15	0.15
Vitamin premix2)	0.12	0.11
Phytase optis	0.05	0.05
NaHCO3	0.08	0.08
Calculated analysis
Crude protein (%)	20.5	20.0
Crude fat (%)	5.84	8.23
Crude fiber (%)	2.80	2.92
Ash (%)	4.74	4.97
Ca (%)	0.80	0.90
Available P (%)	0.62	0.61
Met + Cys (%)	1.03	0.83
AMEn (kcal/kg)	3,100	3,150

Mineral premix provided the following per kg of diet: Fe, 80 mg; Zn, 50 mg; Mn, 60 mg; Co, 0.3 mg; Cu, 10 mg; Se, 0.2 mg.
Vitamin premix provided the following per kg of diet: vitamin A, 80,000 IU; vitamin D₃, 1,600 IU; vitamin E, 20 IU; vitamin K₃, 8 mg; vitamin B₁, 8 mg; vitamin B₂, 24 mg; vitamin B₆, 12 mg; vitamin B₁₂, 0.040 mg; pantothenic acid, 40 mg; folic acid, 4 mg; nicotinic acid, 120 mg.
Met, methionine; Cys, cysteine; AMEn, apparent metabolizable energy.