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Table 8 The effects of dietary treatments on apparent digestibility coefficients amino acids in distal ileum 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

0.894

0.852

0.851

0.848

0.865

0.949

0.865a

0.818

0.837

0.802

0.808

0.901

0.808

0.883

0.837

0.844

0.861

Sorghum

0.893

0.816

0.819

0.814

0.863

0.934

0.834a

0.787

0.803

0.791

0.806

0.841

0.782

0.799

0.806

0.790

0.824

175

Wheat

0.904

0.868

0.868

0.873

0.874

0.942

0.879a

0.818

0.856

0.714

0.739

0.908

0.866

0.907

0.802

0.802

0.868

Sorghum

0.896

0.799

0.808

0.772

0.870

0.918

0.774b

0.784

0.794

0.730

0.734

0.830

0.826

0.809

0.732

0.700

0.806

SEM

0.0106

0.0140

0.0164

0.0180

0.0142

0.9358

0.0169

0.0174

0.0169

0.0226

0.0184

0.0137

0.0149

0.0136

0.0185

0.0221

0.0154

Main effects: CP

 205

0.894

0.834

0.835

0.831

0.864

0.942

0.849

0.802

0.820

0.796a

0.807a

0.871

0.795

0.841

0.822a

0.817a

0.843

 175

0.900

0.834

0.838

0.823

0.872

0.930

0.826

0.801

0.825

0.722b

0.737b

0.869

0.846

0.858

0.767b

0.751b

0.837

Main effects: Grain

 Wheat

0.899

0.860a

0.860a

0.861a

0.870

0.946a

0.872

0.818

0.846a

0.758

0.774

0.905a

0.837

0.895a

0.820a

0.823a

0.864a

 Sorghum

0.895

0.808b

0.813b

0.793b

0.867

0.926b

0.804

0.785

0.798b

0.760

0.770

0.836b

0.804

0.804b

0.769b

0.745b

0.815b

Significance (P)

 Crude protein (CP)

0.540

0.964

0.861

0.635

0.568

0.194

0.181

0.948

0.779

0.002

0.001

0.867

0.002

0.228

0.006

0.005

0.704

 Feed grain (FG)

0.658

0.000

0.006

0.000

0.838

0.028

0.000

0.063

0.006

0.898

0.850

0.001

0.028

0.001

0.008

0.001

0.002

 CP × FG interaction

0.744

0.258

0.398

0.074

0.913

0.602

0.037

0.922

0.420

0.550

0.951

0.515

0.663

0.641

0.309

0.287

0.424

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