Table 3.

Effects of stale maize on growth performance in broilers

Items	CON1)	Stale maize1)	SEM	p-value
Initial BW (g)	45.4	45.5	0.02	0.38
Final BW (g)	2,607	2,578	15.1	0.19
ADG (g)
d 0 to 21	35.4	35.6	0.19	0.34
d 22 to 42	86.7	85.0	0.52	0.12
d 0 to 42	61.0	60.3	0.33	0.43
ADFI (g)
d 0 to 21	54.7a	50.2b	0.21	<0.01
d 22 to 42	155a	151b	0.80	0.02
d 0 to 42	105a	101b	0.42	0.02
FCR
d 0 to 21	1.55a	1.41b	0.01	<0.01
d 22 to 42	1.79	1.78	0.01	0.26
d 0 to 42	1.72a	1.67b	0.01	0.03

Means represent 20 cages of broilers with 20 birds per cage (n = 20/group).

SEM, standard error of the means; BW, body weight; ADG, average daily gain; ADFI, average daily feed intake; FCR, feed conversion ratio.

¹⁾CON, basal diet; Stale maize, basal diet containing 100% stale maize.

^a,bMeans with different superscripts in a row differ significantly (p<0.05).