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Table 1 The compositions and nutrient levels of basal diet

Items	Content
Ingredients, %
Corn	59.37
Soybean meal	31.90
Soybean oil	5.00
Limestone	1.23
Dicalcium phosphate	1.50
L-lysine	0.11
DL-methionine	0.27
Salt	0.30
Vitamin premix^a	0.03
Mineral premix^b	0.20
70% Choline chloride	0.09
Calculated nutrients, %
Metabolizable energy, kcal/kg	3,100
Crude protein	19.00
Calcium	0.90
Total phosphorus	0.56
Available phosphorus	0.35
Lysine	1.00
Methionine	0.46
Methionine + cystine	0.80
Threonine	0.60
Tryptophan	0.20

^aVitamin premix provided per kilogram of diet: Vitamin A, 12,000 IU; Vitamin D₃, 2500 IU; Vitamin E, 20 IU; menadione, 1.3 mg; thiamin, 2.21 mg; riboflavin, 7.8 mg; nicotinamide, 40 mg; calcium pantothenate, 16.5 mg; pyridoxine HCl, 4 mg; biotin, 0.04 mg; folic acid, 1.2 mg; Vitamin B₁₂, 0.015 mg
^bMineral premix provided per kilogram of diet: iron, 80 mg; copper, 8.0 mg; manganese, 110 mg, zinc 65 mg; iodine, 1.1 mg; selenium, 0.3 mg

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