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Table 7.

Influence of meat-and-bone meal and phytase supplementation on apparent ileal digestibility coefficients of essential amino acids in broiler chickens at 36 days post-hatch.

Treatments	MBM, g/kg	Phytase, FYT/kg	Arg	His	Ile	Leu	Lys	Met	Phe	Thr	Val
2	0	0	0.870	0.839	0.834^a	0.843	0.878	0.945	0.854	0.815	0.809^a
3	0	1,000	0.866	0.838	0.836^a	0.843	0.881	0.944	0.854	0.818	0.813^a
4	60	0	0.852	0.821	0.820^a	0.829	0.870	0.940	0.845	0.812	0.801^ab
5	60	1,000	0.868	0.833	0.829^a	0.845	0.876	0.949	0.857	0.825	0.822^a
6	120	0	0.830	0.799	0.809^a	0.815	0.842	0.927	0.841	0.783	0.775^b
7	120	1,000	0.815	0.764	0.765^b	0.784	0.828	0.921	0.807	0.759	0.738^c
SEM			0.0101	0.0108	0.0099	0.0097	0.0069	0.0053	0.0096	0.0097	0.0111
Main effects: MBM, g/kg
0			0.868^a	0.838^a	0.835	0.843^a	0.880^a	0.945^a	0.854^a	0.817^a	0.811
60			0.860^a	0.827^a	0.824	0.837^a	0.873^a	0.944^a	0.851^a	0.818^a	0.811
120			0.823^b	0.781^b	0.787	0.800^b	0.835^b	0.924^b	0.824^b	0.771^b	0.756
Phytase, FYT/kg
0			0.851	0.819	0.821	0.829	0.863	0.937	0.846	0.803	0.795
1,000			0.850	0.811	0.810	0.824	0.862	0.938	0.839	0.801	0.791
Significance (P-value)
MBM			<0.001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.001	<0.0001	<0.001	0.006	<0.0001	<0.0001
Phytase			0.929	0.381	0.190	0.516	0.800	0.918	0.359	0.741	0.627
Interaction			0.318	0.098	0.022	0.061	0.334	0.354	0.061	0.162	0.039
Positive control			0.878	0.849	0.846	0.854	0.886	0.948	0.864	0.823	0.823
P-value¹			0.529	0.481	0.373	0.439	0.402	0.772	0.478	0.587	0.355

MBM = meat and bone meal; SEM = pooled standard error of mean.

^a,b,c Means within columns not sharing a common suffix are significantly different (P < 0.05).

Comparison between treatments 1 and 2.