title: Investigations of the digestibility of proximate composition in commercial palm kern meal in broiler chick rations.
abstract: The digestibility for crude protein, ether extract, crude fibre, ash and nitrogen-free extract were determined for palm kernel meal samples. The test diets, identified as DA, DB and DI, were formulated to contain 10%, 20% and 40% palm kernel meal, respectively. With the exception of crude fibre and crude protein the digestibility of the nutrients of the diets decreased significantly as the dietary fibre content increased.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, University of Ife, Nigeria.
authors.forename: J U
authors.initials: JU
authors.lastname: Ogbonna
authors.forename: O G
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Longe
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Legel
mesh_terms: D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens / Q000378:metabolism*; D004043:Dietary Fiber / Q000378:metabolism*; D004063:Digestion; D011897:Random Allocation