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

Table 2 Diet composition of experimental diets formulated to determine the effects of feeding regular and fractionated wheat distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to broiler chicks ¹

	Level of fractionated wheat DDGS, %
Ingredient, % as fed	0	5	10	15	20
Wheat	48.38	48.96	49.54	50.12	50.70
Soybean meal	20.76	20.24	19.72	19.19	18.67
Regular wheat DDGS	20.00	15.00	10.00	5.00	0.00
Fractionated wheat DDGS	0.00	5.00	10.00	15.00	20.00
Canola oil	6.44	6.38	6.31	6.25	6.19
Vitamin-mineral premix¹	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50
Dicalcium phosphate	1.16	1.15	1.13	1.12	1.10
Limestone	1.54	1.55	1.56	1.56	1.57
Salt	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50
Endofeed W²	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
Choline chloride	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.08
Chromic oxide	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35
D-L Methionine	0.05	0.05	0.04	0.04	0.03
L-Lysine HCl	0.22	0.23	0.25	0.26	0.27

¹Supplied per kilogram of diet: 11,000 IU vitamin A, 2,200 IU vitamin D₃, 30 IU vitamin E (dl-α-tocopheryl acetate), 2.0 mg menadione, 1.5 mg thiamine, 6.0 mg riboflavin, 60 mg niacin, 4 mg pyridoxine, 0.02 mg vitamin B₁₂, 10.0 mg pantothenic acid, 6.0 mg folic acid, 0.15 mg biotin, 0.625 mg ethoxyquin, 500 mg CaCO₃, 80 mg Fe, 80 mg Zn, 80 mg Mn, 10 mg Cu, 0.8 mg I, 0.3 mg Se.
²Enzyme product produced from Aspergillus Niger fermentation providing 700 units/g of β-glucanase and 2,250 units/g of xylanase (GNC Bioferm, Saskatoon, SK).

ISSN: 2049-1891