Table 3.

Performance of layer birds fed palm-fruit diets with and without microbial modification

Diet	Feed consumption (g day-1)	Bird weight gain (g day-1)	Feed / gain ratio (feed/ bird weight)
Palm-fruit + T. virens	134.57b	14.71a	9.15
Palm-fruit – Fungus	130.60b	12.24a	8.57
Control maize diet	150.0a	15.14a	9.91
Probability of source of variation
Husk addition	P<0.0001	0.8776
Microbial addition	0.0048	0.4824
Husk x microbe	0.0013	0.6278

*superscript shows grouping from t-test among the different feed types

Means within a column in each comparison group with no common superscripts differ significantly (P<0.05)

Means with the same letter are not significantly different (P>0.05).