Diets and Experimental Treatments
Basal starter (1 to 28 d) and finisher (29 to 42 d) diets
were formulated (Table 2) according to the nutrient requirement
recommendations of NRC (1994) for broiler
chickens except for crude protein and metabolizable energy,
which were slightly lower than the recommendations
for starter diets (Table 3). Water was supplemented
with 0.3 and 0.6% KCl (wt/vol) by supplementing 3 and 6