Table 1. Ingredient and chemical composition of the experimental diets

Item Formula feed Roughage
Growing Fattening Italian ryegrass Rice straw
Ingredient composition (%)
 Corn grain 24.90 43.70 - -
 Wheat grain 8.00 7.00 - -
 Rice - 2.00 - -
 Cane molasses 3.00 3.60 - -
 Wheat flour - 1.50 - -
 Wheat bran 6.90 3.00 - -
 Corn gluten feed 21.00 11.00 - -
 Soybean Meal 5.20 10.40 - -
 Coconut meal 3.00 - - -
 Palm kernel meal 12.00 6.00 - -
 Corn-DDGS 8.00 2.60 - -
 Lupin flake 3.00 2.00 - -
 Cottonseed - 3.00 - -
 Protected fat - 0.40 - -
 Salt dehydrate 0.60 0.70 - -
 Limestone 2.90 1.90 - -
 Sodium bicarbonate 0.30 0.70 - -
 MSG-CMS 0.50 - - -
 Vitamin premix1) 0.10 0.10 - -
 Mineral premix2) 0.10 0.10 - -
 Feed additives 0.50 0.30 - -
Chemical composition (%)
 Dry matter 88.06 86.97 84.64 91.64
 Crude protein 16.02 14.50 10.38 4.73
 Ether extract 4.37 4.38 2.79 2.29
 Crude ash 6.52 5.88 6.45 12.59
 Neutral detergent fiber 29.32 17.45 56.09 63.19
 Acid detergent fiber 13.29 7.56 31.20 36.78
Vitamin premix provided the following quantities of vitamins per kilogram of the diet: vitamin A, 10,000 IU; vitamin D3, 1500 IU; vitamin E, 25 IU.
Mineral premix provided the following quantities of minerals per kilogram of the diet: Fe, 50 mg; Cu, 7 mg; Zn, 30 mg; Mn, 24 mg; I, 0.6 mg; Co, 0.15 mg; Se, 0.15 mg.
Corn-DDGS, corn dried distill’s grains with solubles; MSG-CMS, condensed molasses soluble-mono sodium glutamate.