. 2022 May 28;101(8):101978. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2022.101978

Table 5.

Nutrient digestibility and energy values of diets containing combined soybean meal in broiler chickens (Experiment 1) treatment.

	Apparent digestibility (%)			True digestibility (%)			Energy values (kcal/kg)
	DM	CP	GE	DM	CP	GE	AME	AMEn	TME	TMEn
1	70.77^d	47.73^b	73.24^f	74.31^d	56.20^c	75.52^f	2,742^c	2,697^c	2,826^c	2,771^c
2	72.44^c	48.80^ab	74.86^e	76.13^c	56.98^bc	77.24^e	2,774^c	2,728^c	2,862^c	2,805^c
3	74.51^b	48.31^ab	76.98^d	78.23^b	57.12^bc	79.36^d	2,862^bc	2,817^bc	2,950^bc	2,893^bc
4	75.15^b	49.49^ab	82.08^a	78.72^b	57.94^abc	83.94^a	3,204^a	3,158^a	3,292^a	3,237^a
5	76.79^a	50.32^a	78.57^c	80.43^a	59.80^a	80.98^c	2,833^bc	2,785^bc	2,919^bc	2,862^bc
6	77.24^a	50.36^a	79.93^b	80.73^a	58.96^ab	82.43^b	2,948^b	2,905^b	3,032^b	2,977^b
SEM	0.363	0.291	0.459	0.367	0.317	0.453	2,894	2,848	2,980	2,924
P-value	<0.001	0.035	<0.001	<0.001	0.006	<0.001	24.61	24.61	24.61	24.61
Linear	<0.001	0.341	<0.001	<0.001	0.288	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Quadratic	<0.001	0.581	<0.001	<0.001	0.460	<0.001	0.006	0.006	0.004	0.004

Abbreviations: AME, apparent metabolizable energy; AMEn, nitrogen corrected apparent metabolizable energy; CP, crude protein; DM, dry matter; GE, gross energy; TME, true metabolizable energy; TMEn, nitrogen corrected apparent metabolizable energy.

^a-f

Means with different superscripts within the same row are significantly different (P < 0.05).