Table 1 Ingredients (% as fed basis) and chemical composition (g/100Â g) of the concentrates used in the experimental diets (by Cobellis et al. [8])
Item | Diet | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ingredients | CTR | RL pellet | RL | EO |
  Wheat bran | 40.00 | 30.00 | 39.00 | 39.30 |
  Wheat flour middlings | 17.80 | 24.30 | 17.35 | 17.49 |
  Corn grain | 10.00 | 10.00 | 9.75 | 9.82 |
  Sunflower meal | 14.90 | 14.90 | 14.53 | 14.64 |
  Soybean meal | 5.00 | 6.00 | 4.87 | 4.91 |
  Calcium carbonate | 4.20 | 4.20 | 4.09 | 4.13 |
  Dehydrated alfalfa meal | 3.50 | 3.50 | 3.41 | 3.44 |
  Beet protein concentrate | 2.00 | 2.00 | 1.95 | 1.96 |
  Sugar cane molasses | 2.00 | 2.00 | 1.95 | 1.96 |
  Vitamin-mineral supplement1 | 0.60 | 0.60 | 0.60 | 0.60 |
  Rosemary leaves | - | 2.50 | 2.50 | - |
  Rosemary essential oil | - | - | - | 1.75 |
 Chemical composition |  |  |  |  |
   Analysed |  |  |  |  |
  Dry matter | 92.88 | 92.78 | 92.84 | 92.96 |
  Crude protein | 18.40 | 18.44 | 18.09 | 18.08 |
  Crude fat | 3.08 | 3.21 | 3.12 | 3.05 |
  Ash | 9.84 | 9.98 | 9.79 | 11.24 |
  NDF | 29.65 | 29.52 | 29.79 | 29.13 |
  ADF | 10.65 | 11.17 | 10.99 | 10.47 |
  Lignin sa | 3.14 | 2.99 | 3.38 | 3.08 |
  Ca | 0.80 | 0.70 | 0.79 | 0.79 |
  P | 0.75 | 0.68 | 0.75 | 0.74 |
  Na | 0.28 | 0.27 | 0.27 | 0.28 |
   Calculated |  |  |  |  |
  Lys | 0.70 | 0.71 | 0.68 | 0.69 |
  Met | 0.29 | 0.29 | 0.28 | 0.28 |
  Met + Cys | 0.58 | 0.58 | 0.56 | 0.57 |
  Choline | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.14 |