Table 8.

Effect of dietary treatments on apparent digestibility coefficients and disappearance rates (g/bird/D) of starch in distal jejunum and distal ileum at 35 D post-hatch.

	Distal jejunum		Distal ileum
Treatment	Digestibility	Disappearance	Digestibility	Disappearance
1	0.786a	33.6a	0.880a	37.7a
2	0.798a	36.1a	0.902a,b	40.6b
3	0.857b	43.6b	0.922b,c	46.8c
4	0.892b,c	50.3c	0.959d,e	54.1d
5	0.884b,c	48.6c	0.940c,d	51.7d
6	0.928d	55.2d	0.965d,e	57.5e
7	0.922c,d	54.7d	0.979e	58.0e
SEM	0.0151	1.0932	0.0091	0.9164
Significance (P =)	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
LSD (P < 0.05)	0.0430	3.12	0.0259	2.62
Linear effect of	r = −0.727	r = −0.914	r = −0.741	r = −0.935
dietary CP 1 to 4	P < 0.001	P < 0.001	P < 0.001	P < 0.001

^a–eMeans within columns not sharing common suffixes are significantly different (P < 0.05).