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Table 4 Composition of the basal experimental diets fed in phase I (body weight < 15 kg) and II (body weight > 15 kg)

	Phase I	Phase II
Composition (g/kg)
Wheat	381.7	406.4
Barley	315	302
Soy bean meal (44% crude protein)	250	240
Soy oil	15	15
Mineral and vitamin premix*	33.5	33.4
L-Lysine	2.6	1.5
DL-methionine	1.0	0.5
L-threonine	1.2	0.7
Titanium dioxide	-	0.5
Concentration of nutrients
Metabolizable energy (MJ/kg)^†	13.7	13.3
Dry matter (%)^†	88.8	88.2
Crude protein (%)^†	19.8	18.5
Crude fiber (%)^†	3.3	4.3
Crude fat (%)^†	3.5	4.0
Crude ash (%)^†	5.1	5.0
Digestible lysine (%)^†	1.16	1.05
Digestible methionine + cysteine (%)^†	0.62	0.57
Digestible threonine (%)^†	0.69	0.63
Digestible tryptophan (%)^†	0.21	0.21

*The mineral and vitamin premix (Bergin Novamast, Bergophor, Kulmbach, Germany) provided the following per kg diet: 1.34 g lysine, 1,020 FYT phytase, 102 mg iron, 102 mg manganese, 102 mg zinc, 20.4 mg copper, 2.21 mg iodine, 0.44 mg selenium, 13,400 IE vitamin A, 2,244 IE vitamin D₃, 102 mg vitamin E, 2.55 mg vitamin K, 2.55 mg vitamin B₁, 6.8 mg vitamin B₂, 5.1 mg vitamin B₆, 34 μg vitamin B12, 34 mg nicotinic acid, 17 mg Ca-D-pantothenic acid, 1 mg folic acid, 136 μg biotin, 340 g choline chloride.
^†Calculated according to recommendations of German Society for Nutrition Physiology.
^†Analysed (mean values of three analyses per diet).
^†calculated using tabular values from AMINODat® 4.0 (Evonik Industries AG, Essen, Germany).

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