Synergism of fermented feed and ginseng polysaccharide on growth performance, intestinal development, and immunity of Xuefeng black-bone chickens

Table 1 Basic feed formulation and nutrient composition (air-dried basis, %)

Ingredient	Content (%)
Ingredient	Diet 1 (0–4 week)	Diet 2 (5–15 week)
Corn	59.0	59.0
Soybean meal	20.0	17.2
Cottonseed meal	3.8	8.5
Peanut meal	2.2
Rapeseed meal	4.0	2.3
Fish meal	4.1	2.0
Wheat bran	0.6	5.0
Rapeseed oil	1.0	0
Calcium hydroxide	0.8	0.6
Stone powder	0.5	0.9
Premix	4.0	4.0
Salt	0.5	0.4
Nutritional composition
Metabolizable energy (Mcal/kg)	12.46	12.70
Crude protein %	20.55	17.05
Calcium %	1.0	0.85
Available phosphorus %	0.45	0.4
Methionine%	0.51	0.42
Lysine %	1.1	1.11
Potassium %	0.85	0.71
Sodium %	0.2	0.19
Chlorine %	0.2	0.25

Note: The compound premix is provided for each kilogram of a basic diet with Cu 200 mg, Fe 1000 mg, Zn 1000 mg, Mn 1000 mg, Se 2.5 mg, I 15 mg, Ca 10%, total phosphorus 2.5%, sodium chloride 4–10%, leech 10%, choline 7500 mg, vitamin A 100,000 IU, vitamin D3 30,000 IU, vitamin E 850 IU, vitamin B1 30 mg, vitamin B2 130 mg, Vitamin B6 60 mg, vitamin B12 0.3 mg, strontium folate 22 mg, biotin 3 mg, niacin citrate 600 mg, barium citrate 45 mg, phytase 4000 U

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