Table 11.
Effects of treatments on dietary AME (kcal/kg) along with dry matter, organic matter, and fatty acid digestibility (%) in 11-day-old broiler chickens (Experiment 2).
| Experimental Treatments 1 | Statistics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NC | CC | DC | SEM | p-Value | |
| AME, kcal/kg | 3138 | 3082 | 3180 | 39.78 | 0.361 |
| Digestibility, % | |||||
| Dry matter | 90.65 | 90.35 | 90.42 | 0.384 | 0. 835 |
| Organic matter | 70.09 | 68.89 | 70.26 | 0.981 | 0.375 |
| Total FA | 73.97 | 72.54 | 75.74 | 2.305 | 0.517 |
| SFA | 60.87 | 58.14 | 62.73 | 3.523 | 0.531 |
| MUFA | 72.34 | 70.91 | 74.36 | 2.707 | 0.557 |
| PUFA | 77.74 | 76.64 | 79.46 | 1.958 | 0.494 |
1 NC = non-challenged; CC = control-challenged (coccidiosis); DC = DIC-supplemented-challenged (1 kg/t DIC). Values are means of 6 replicates. DIC = feed additive DICOSAN+; AME = apparent metabolizable energy; FA = fatty acids; SFA = saturated fatty acids; MUFA = monounsaturated fatty acids; PUFA = polyunsaturated fatty acids; UFA = unsaturated fatty acids; SEM = standard error of the mean.