Ingredients Reference diet Test diets Test ingredient - 298.5 Fish waste meal 407.6 285.3 Soybean meal 100 70 Wheat grain 20 14 Corn grain 392.4 274.7 Soybean oil 5.0 3.5 Vitamin mineral premix1 50 35 Carboxymethyl cellulose 20 14 Chromic oxide 5.0 5.0 1Vitamin mineral premix (providing per kg): vitamin A (retinol), 14000 mg; vitamin D3(chole-calciferol), 4000 mg; vitamin E (tocopheryl acetate),10000 I.U; vitamin K3, acid, 5000 mg; pyridoxine, 750 mg; folic acid, 250 mg; vitamin B12, 8 mg; vitamin H as Biotin, 30 mg; betain, 100000 mg; Antioxidant, 125000 mg. Minerals: Manganese, 80000mg; Zinc, 50000 mg; Iron, 20000 mg; Copper, 5000 mg; Iodine, 1200 mg; Cobalt, 200 mg; Selenium, 200 mg.

Table 1: Composition of reference and test diets (g kg-1) for the digestibility study