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Table 1 Ingredients and nutrient composition of the basal diet (g/kg diet as-fed basis)

From: Effect of dietary oridonin supplementation on growth performance, gut health, and immune response of broilers infected with Salmonella pullorum

Ingredients (g/kg)

1-21d

 Corn

578

 Soybean meal (43%, crude protein)

325

 Corn gluten meal

30

 Soybean oil

27

 Limestone

9.5

 Dicalcium phosphate

17.5

 Salt

3

 Choline chloride

3.0

 Minerals premixa

2.5

 Vitamin premix2

0.5

 L-Lysine HCl

2.5

 Methionine

1.5

 Total

1000

Calculation of nutrients (g/kg)3

Apparent metabolizable energy (MJ/kg)

12.5

 Crude protein

212

 Calcium

9.7

 Available Phosphorus

4.2

 Lysine

10.8

 Methionine

4.8

 Methionine+cysteine

8.1

  1. Note:1Minerals premix provided the following per kg of diet: Fe (ferrous sulfate), 80 mg; Cu (copper sulfate), 8 mg; Mn (manganese sulfate), 110 mg; Zn (Bacitracin Zn), 65 mg; iodine (calcium iodate), 1.1 mg; Se (sodium selenite), 0.3 mg
  2. 2Vitamin premix provided the following per kg of diet: vitamin A (transretinyl acetate), 10,000 IU; vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), 3000 IU; vitamin E (all-rac-α-tocopherolacetate), 30 IU; menadione, 1.3 mg; thiamine 2.2 mg; riboflavin, 8 mg; nicotinamide, 40 mg. pyridoxine·HCl, 4 mg; biotin, 0.04 mg; folic acid, 1 mg; vitamin B12 (cobalamine), 0.013 mg
  3. 3The nutrient levels were on an as-feed basis