Fatty Acid Composition of Egg Yolk from Chickens Fed a Diet including Marigold (Tagetes erecta L.)

Table 1

Composition of the experimental diets¹ (as dry-matter basis).

Supplementation of Tagetes erecta L. (g/kg)
Feed ingredients	0	10	20
Corn	420.5	420.5	420.5
Barley	120	120	120
Soybean meal	124	124	124
Sunflower meal	100	100	100
Wheat middlings	120	110	100
Tagetes erecta L.	0	10	20
Vegetable oil	14	14	14
Limestone	82	82	82
Dicalcium phosphate	12	12	12
Lysine	0.5	0.5	0.5
DL-Methionine	1	1	1
NaCl	2.5	2.5	2.5
Vitamin premix	2.5	2.5	2.5
Total	1,000	1,000	1,000

Diets contained per kilogram of diet: vitamin A, 8000 IU/kg; vitamin D, 1500 IU/kg; riboflavin, 4 mg/kg; cobalamin, 10 ug/kg; vitamin E, 15 mg/kg; vitamin K, 2 mg/kg; choline, 500 mg/kg; niacin, 25 mg/kg; manganese, 60 mg/kg; zinc, 50 mg/kg.