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TABLE 9.

Nutrient and energy digestibility, and N retention of faba bean (FB, g/kg) seed summarized from several references and different animal species

Authors	Animal	Feedstuff	FB level	Nutrient digestibility
Authors	Animal	Feedstuff	FB level	DM	OM	CP	EE	NDF	ADF	Starch
Mariscal‐Landín et al. (2002)	Pigs	Raw FB seed	463	0.721	‐	0.708	‐	0.229	0.166	0.840
Mariscal‐Landín et al. (2002)	Pigs	Dehulled FB seed	417	0.753	‐	0.741	‐	‐	‐	‐
Koivunen, Tuunainen, Rossow, et al. (2014)	Male broilers	Raw FB seed	0	0.665	0.683	0.825	‐	‐	‐	‐
			80	0.696	0.721	0.831	‐	‐	‐	‐
			160	0.713	0.736	0.835	‐	‐	‐	‐
			240	0.705	0.731	0.825	‐	‐	‐	‐
Hejdysz et al. (2016)	Broiler chickens	Raw FB seed	400	0.722	‐	0.858	0.760	‐	‐	0.773
Hejdysz et al. (2016)	Broiler chickens	Extruded FB seed	400	0.781	‐	0.896	0.898	‐	‐	0.970
Koivunen et al. (2016)	Broiler chickens	Raw FB seed
Koivunen et al. (2016)	0	0.364	0.373	0.836	‐	‐	‐	‐
Landry et al. (2016)	Male pigs	Raw FB seed	500	0.727	0.741	0.796	‐	‐	‐	‐

Abbreviations: CP, crude protein; DM, dry matter; EE, ether extract; NDF, 0neutral detergent fiber; OM, organic matter.