Table 3.

The flow of non-starch polysaccharides along the gastrointestinal tract of broiler chickens fed a wheat- or maize-based diet at 12 and 35 days of age (g/kg marker DM).¹

Item	Soluble NSP2				Insoluble NSP				Oligosaccharides
	Wheat	Maize	SEM3	P-value	Wheat	Maize	SEM	P-value	Wheat	Maize	SEM	P-value
12 days of age
Diet	14.2	7.9			123.3	112.1			45.5	47.8
Crop	–	–			–	–			–	–
Gizzard	16.2	13.3	0.89	0.101	377.8	556.1	24.67	<0.001	16.1	27.9	1.51	<0.001
Duodenum	–	–			–	–			–	–
Jejunum	12.5	5.9	1.04	<0.001	102.9	93.7	2.94	0.124	68.9	47.6	4.50	0.009
Ileum	12.2	4.6	1.17	<0.001	82.6	90.7	1.79	0.016	23.0	20.8	1.73	0.557
Caeca	38.7	13.6	4.21	<0.001	67.8	17.7	7.98	<0.001	13.4	7.3	1.12	0.001
Excreta	12.0	5.8	0.70	<0.001	76.4	86.3	1.68	0.001	13.5	10.6	0.78	0.061
35 days of age
Diet	17.2	8.6			81.1	95.3			41.4	41.9
Crop	14.2	5.1	1.12	<0.001	106.6	110.0	1.53	0.292	16.5	22.1	1.19	0.024
Gizzard	27.7	15.4	2.07	<0.001	314.4	528.4	35.61	<0.001	31.3	38.6	2.23	0.102
Duodenum	25.0	13.2	1.84	<0.001	90.3	83.3	4.14	0.422	131.9	121.9	7.73	0.546
Jejunum	12.1	5.3	0.77	<0.001	75.6	81.1	1.81	0.128	89.4	73.5	3.15	0.017
Ileum	13.4	6.2	0.79	<0.001	68.8	74.8	1.51	0.045	31.7	22.9	1.34	<0.001
Caeca	13.5	9.6	1.95	0.279	34.1	22.6	4.35	0.083	8.2	5.4	1.13	0.130
Excreta	10.4	6.9	0.47	<0.001	72.9	77.4	1.51	0.068	10.1	7.4	0.65	0.045

¹Each mean represents values from 12 replicates and each sample was analysed in duplicates.

²NSP, non-starch polysaccharides.

³SEM, standard error of the mean.