Table 1.
Ingredient composition of basal diet on an as fed basis

Item	Basal diet
Ingredient (%)
Corn	61.80
Soybean meal (46%)	18.00
Rapeseed meal	3.00
DDGS	5.00
Limestone	9.67
Monocalcium phosphate	0.35
Salt	0.27
Tallow	1.30
Vitamin mineral premix1	0.10
Lysine-HCl (55%)	0.18
Methionine hydroxyl analogue	0.23
Choline-HCl (50%)	0.10
Total	100.00
Chemical compositions, calculated
CP (%)	16.1
EE (%)	4.3
Ca (%)	3.8
Avail. P (%)	0.30
Lys (%)	0.86
TSAA, %	0.84
MEn (kcal/kg)	2,810

Provided per kg of diet: vitamin A, 10,000 IU; vitamin D₃, 3,500 IU; vitamin E, 20 IU; vitamin K₃, 2 mg; thiamine, 1 mg; riboflavin, 5 mg; pyridoxine, 2.5 mg; vitamin B₁₂, 0.016 mg; nicotinic acid, 30 mg; calcium pantothenate, 7 mg; folic acid, 0.7 mg; Mn, 80 mg; Zn, 40 mg; Fe, 30 mg; Cu, 8 mg; I, 1 mg and Se, 0.1 mg.