Table 1. Composition of the experimental diets (as-fed basis)

Item	Lysine level of the diet
	Medium1)	Low
Ingredients (%)		100.00
Corn		52.09
Wheat		10.00
Barley		6.00
Soybean meal		2.40
Rapeseed meal		5.00
Palm kernel meal		10.00
DDGS		10.00
Animal fat		2.50
Salt		0.40
Limestone		0.36
Tricalcium phosphate		0.85
L-lysine (56%)		0.20
Vitamin premix		0.10
Mineral premix		0.10
Chemical composition
ME (Mcal/kg)	3.20	3.32
Crude protein (%)	13.50	13.50
Crude fat (%)	6.50	8.50
Total lysine (%)	0.80	0.60

It was a commercial diet whose ingredient composition was not allowed to be publicized by the manufacturer; information on chemical composition of the diet was kindly provided by the manufacturer.
DDGS, dried distillers grains with solubles; ME, metabolizable energy.