Table 7. Effect of feed form and enzyme supplementation to broiler chickens on digestibility of indispensable amino acids
Feed form | Enzyme | Arg | His | Ile | Leu | Ly | Met | Thr | Phe | Val |
Mash | No enzyme | 0.88d | 0.80d | 0.78d | 0.67d | 0.83c | 0.91c | 0.76d | 0.83d | 0.79bc |
AXB | 0.92abc | 0.82cd | 0.84abc | 0.75abc | 0.88ab | 0.94ab | 0.83abc | 0.89abc | 0.83ab |
QB | 0.91c | 0.83bcd | 0.82bcd | 0.68cd | 0.86bc | 0.92bc | 0.80cd | 0.86c | 0.78c |
AXB + QB | 0.92abc | 0.81d | 0.81cd | 0.72bcd | 0.87ab | 0.93ab | 0.83abc | 0.87bc | 0.80bc |
Pellet | No enzyme | 0.91bc | 0.86abc | 0.83abc | 0.74abc | 0.90a | 0.93ab | 0.81bc | 0.88abc | 0.82abc |
Axtra XB | 0.92abc | 0.87ab | 0.88a | 0.79a | 0.98ab | 0.95a | 0.87a | 0.90a | 0.86a |
QB | 0.93ab | 0.86abc | 0.87a | 0.78ab | 0.89ab | 0.93b | 0.84ab | 0.89ab | 0.86a |
AXB + QB | 0.93a | 0.88a | 0.86ab | 0.77ab | 0.90a | 0.94ab | 0.86a | 0.90a | 0.87a |
SEM | 0.003 | 0.005 | 0.006 | 0.008 | 0.004 | 0.002 | 0.005 | 0.004 | 0.006 |
Significance | | | | | | | | | |
Feed form | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.002 | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Enzyme | 0.001 | 0.040 | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.044 | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.008 |
Feed form x enzyme | 0.189 | 0.141 | 0.665 | 0.182 | 0.007 | 0.153 | 0.395 | 0.040 | 0.062 |
Means that do not share a letter superscript within the columns are significantly different (p < 0.05).
Values are means of 6 replicates (10 birds per replicate).
AXB, axtra XB (xylanase and beta-glucanase composite); QB, quantum blue (phytase); SEM, standard error of the mean.