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Table 3.

Feed intake, body weight, and FCR of broiler chickens at 7 days of age given diets based on maize or cassava products with or without microbial enzymes¹

Treatments	Enzyme	FI (g/bird)	BW (g/bird)	FCR (g:g)
Ingredient
Maize (control)	−	137.9^b	154.3^bc	1.28^d
	+	154.4^a	175.9^a	1.19^d
Cassava chips	−	120.6^c	116.9^e	1.73^a
	+	138.8^b	131.8^d	1.64^ab
Cassava pellets	−	149.3^ab	145.7^c	1.51^bc
	+	159.8^a	156.8^b	1.46^c
Effect of ingredient
Maize (control)		146.1^b	165.2^a	1.24^c
Cassava chips		130.1^c	124.4^c	1.69^a
Cassava pellets		154.5^a	151.3^b	1.48^b
Effect of enzyme
−		135.9^b	139.1^b	1.51^a
+		151.0^a	154.9^a	1.43^b
Polled SEM		2.45	3.00	0.03
Model P		<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Source of variation
Ingredient		<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Enzyme		<0.01	<0.01	<0.05
Ingredient×enzyme		0.61	0.24	0.93

FI, feed intake; BW, body weight; FCR, feed conversion ratio; SEM, standard error of mean.

Each value represents the mean of 8 replicates for each treatment group.

^a,b,c,d,e

Values with unlike superscripts within each column are significantly different (p<0.05).