New insights into the associations among feed efficiency, metabolizable efficiency traits and related QTL regions in broiler chickens

Table 1 Ingredient and nutrient composition of the experimental diet

Ingredients, %		Nutrients composition
Corn	67.35	Metabolizable energy, kcal/kg	2,900
Soybean meal	28.00	Crude protein, %	18.30
Soybean oil	0.40	Arginine, %	1.14
Limestone	1.90	Lysine, %	1.07
Monocalcium phosphate	1.00	Methionine, %	0.47
Salt	0.40	Methionine + Cystine, %	0.77
Lysine	0.22	Threonine, %	0.73
Methionine	0.17	Tryptophan, %	0.24
Choline chloride	0.14	Calcium, %	1.01
Premix¹	0.42	Available phosphorus, %	0.31
Total	100

¹Premix supplied per kilogram of diet: vitamin A, 13,200 IU; vitamin D₃, 5,000 IU; vitamin E, 60 IU; vitamin K₃, 8.0 mg; thiamine, 4.0 mg; riboflavin, 12.0 mg; pyridoxine, 12.0 mg; cobalamin, 0.4 mg; nicotinic acid, 80 mg; pantothenic acid, 24 mg; folic acid, 2.0 mg; biotin, 3.0 mg; iron, 70.0 mg; copper, 8.5 mg; zinc, 45.0 mg; manganese, 60.0 mg; iodine, 0.85 mg; selenium, 0.20 mg; cobalt, 0.25 mg

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