Table 5 Composition of experimental diet offered to steers (dry matter basis, %).

From: Evaluation of different mathematical models on fitting the in vitro gas production parameters in beef cattle

Item

Diet

Ingredient

 

Corn silage

29.10

Corn stalks

10.90

Corn

30.00

Jujube powder

8.60

Soybean meal

7.50

Palm kernel meal

7.50

Premix1

4.30

Sodium bicarbonate

1.10

Salt

1.10

Chemical composition of diet

 

TDN

64.31

CP

11.90

EE

2.80

NDF

45.40

ADF

29.60

Calcium (Ca)

0.40

Total phosphorus (P)

0.30

  1. TDN: total digestible nutrition; CP: crude protein; EE: ether extract; NDF: neutral detergent fiber; ADF: acid detergent fiber.
  2. TDN(%) = 0.98 × (100-NDFN-CP-Ash + IADICP-EE) + 0.93×CP + 2.25×(EE-1) + 0.75×(NDFN-ADL)×[1-(ADL/NDFN)0.667]-7.
  3. Premix: Provides per kg: Vitamin A acetate 150,000 to 450,000 IU, Vitamin D3 40,000 to 120,000 IU, DL-α-tocopheryl acetate 400 mg, Copper 250 to 750 mg, Iron 1000 to 5000 mg, Manganese 1000 to 3000 mg, Zinc 1500 to 3700 mg, 10 to 25% Calcium, 0.D3% Total phosphorus, 15 to 30% Sodium chloride.
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