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Table 1 Chemical and amino acid analysis of main ingredients used to determine the nutritive value of regular and fractionated wheat distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) fed to broiler chickens 1

From: Use of a post-production fractionation process improves the nutritional value of wheat distillers grains with solubles for young broiler chicks

 

Wheat

Soybean meal

Wheat DDGS

Fractionated wheat DDGS

Chemical composition, % as fed

Moisture

10.81

7.94

9.22

9.06

Crude protein

14.10

45.53

37.51

45.79

Ash

1.68

6.21

5.49

5.19

Ether extract

1.90

1.28

3.99

3.55

Neutral detergent fiber

12.05

12.19

26.76

20.44

Acid detergent fiber

3.66

5.28

12.66

8.17

Calcium

0.05

0.34

0.14

0.13

Total phosphorus

0.37

0.57

0.80

0.70

Phytate phosphorus

0.22

0.44

0.17

0.12

Essential amino acids, % as fed

Arginine

0.60

3.29

1.50

1.71

Histidine

0.30

1.18

0.69

0.83

Isoleucine

0.49

2.15

1.22

1.47

Leucine

0.90

3.47

2.17

2.65

Lysine

0.36

2.92

0.81

0.88

Methionine and cystine

0.51

1.31

1.16

1.43

Phenylalanine

0.67

2.32

1.51

1.82

Threonine

0.37

1.75

0.99

1.18

Tryptophan

0.15

0.66

0.33

0.39

Valine

0.59

2.30

1.54

1.81

  1. 1All data are the results of a chemical analysis conducted in duplicate.