Table 1. Chemical composition of feeding diets1)

Items Growing phase Growing-finishing phase
CD2) ED CD ED
Ingredient (%) 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
 Corn (yellow dent) 64.17 63.93 69.00 68.90
 Soybean meal (solvent extracted) 19.10 19.10 10.80 10.80
 Wheat (soft red) 8.00 8.00 15.00 15.00
 Molasses (sugarcane) 3.00 3.00 2.00 2.00
 Beef tallow 2.00 2.00 0.10 0.10
 Calcium phosphate (dicalcium) 1.20 1.20 0.75 0.75
 L-Lysine-HCl 0.61 0.68 0.57 0.57
 L-Threonine 0.13 0.16 0.11 0.11
 DL-Methionine 0.10 0.13 0.02 0.02
 L-Isoleucine - 0.02 - -
 L-Tryptophan 0.18 0.24 0.20 0.20
 L-Valine 0.08 0.11 0.03 0.03
 Limestone (groundc) 0.73 0.73 0.72 0.72
 Sodium chloride 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30
 Vit min mix 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30
 Phytase 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05
 Choline 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05
 Chromium picolinate - - 0.00 0.10
Metabolic energy (kcal/kg) 3,304 3,308 3,313 3,309
Crude protein (%) 15.49 15.66 12.98 12.97
The amino acids level in the feeding diets was made based on the Standardized Ileal Digestability (SID) (NRC [26]).
CD (control diet), a basal diet; ED (experiment diet), a basal diet + 4% lysine, isoleucine, methionine, threonine, valine and tryptophan during growing phase, and a basal diet supplemented with 0.1% chromium picolinate during finishing phase.