Table 3.
Parameters (%) | Treatments1) | SEM | p-value | ||||
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Cont | PBM | PBMP | PBMO | PBMPO | |||
Dry matter | 93.14 | 92.89 | 91.72 | 91.20 | 91.50 | 0.39 | 0.768 |
Crude protein | 73.41a | 67.52b | 76.34a | 70.25ab | 65.64b | 1.94 | 0.032 |
SEM, standard error of the mean.
Cont, standard broiler ration; PBM, control diet with 25% of the soybean meal replaced by poultry by-product meal (PBM) on an equivalent protein basis; PBMP, PBM diet supplemented with 0.5 g/kg of protease; PBMO, PBM diet supplemented with 1 g/kg organic acid; PBMPO, PBM diet supplemented with 0.5 g/kg protease and 1 g/kg organic acid.
Values within the same row with different superscripts differ significantly (p<0.05).