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Table 7 The effects of dietary treatments on apparent digestibility coefficients amino acids in distal jejunum at 35 d post-hatch

From: Sorghum surpasses wheat as a feed grain for broiler chickens following dietary crude protein reductions

Treatment

Amino acids

CP

Grain

Arg

His

Ile

Leu

Lys

Met

Phe

Thr

Val

Ala

Asp

Glu

Gly

Pro

Ser

Tyr

Total

205

Wheat

0.756

0.706

0.687b

0.678b

0.719

0.867

0.709b

0.669

0.674b

0.629

0.639

0.798

0.640

0.775

0.673ab

0.656a

0.720

Sorghum

0.758

0.661

0.635b

0.622bc

0.735

0.842

0.653b

0.632

0.621b

0.609

0.638

0.683

0.600

0.633

0.616b

0.562b

0.657

175

Wheat

0.848

0.806

0.808a

0.809a

0.828

0.898

0.810a

0.768

0.796a

0.641

0.642

0.856

0.806

0.858

0.710ab

0.701a

0.807

Sorghum

0.801

0.688

0.662b

0.602c

0.772

0.837

0.588c

0.666

0.652b

0.574

0.564

0.712

0.722

0.707

0.534c

0.469c

0.673

SEM

0.0157

0.0179

0.0201

0.0214

0.0192

0.0125

0.0210

0.0798

0.0203

0.0238

0.0959

0.0631

0.0192

0.0153

0.0237

0.0282

0.0187

Main effects: CP

 205

0.757b

0.684b

0.661

0.650

0.727b

0.854

0.681

0.651b

0.648

0.619

0.638

0.740b

0.620b

0.704b

0.644

0.609

0.688b

 175

0.824a

0.747a

0.735

0.706

0.800a

0.867

0.699

0.717a

0.724

0.608

0.603

0.784a

0.764a

0.782a

0.622

0.585

0.740a

Main effects: Grain

 Wheat

0.802

0.756a

0.747

0.744

0.773

0.883a

0.759

0.719a

0.735

0.635

0.641

0.827

0.723a

0.817a

0.692

0.679

0.763a

 Sorghum

0.779

0.675b

0.649

0.612

0.754

0.839b

0.620

0.649b

0.637

0.591

0.601

0.697

0.661b

0.670b

0.575

0.515

0.665b

Significance (P)

 Crude protein (CP)

0.000

0.001

0.001

0.014

0.001

0.307

0.388

0.002

0.001

0.635

0.154

0.010

0.001

0.001

0.364

0.415

0.010

 Feed grain (FG)

0.142

0.001

0.001

0.001

0.303

0.001

0.001

0.001

0.001

0.068

0.096

0.001

0.002

0.001

0.001

0.001

0.001

 CP × FG interaction

0.135

0.053

0.028

0.001

0.072

0.163

0.000

0.119

0.035

0.333

0.122

0.381

0.256

0.768

0.018

0.021

0.064

  1. Means within columns not sharing a similar superscript are significantly different at the 5% level of probability
  2. SEM Standard error of mean