The effect of high and low dietary fiber diets on the performance of two lines of chickens with divergent growth rates
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viii CHAPTER 1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1 Thesis Organization 2 CHAPTER 2. REVIEW OF LITERATURE 3 Corn Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles (DDGS) 3 Nutrient composition and value of DDGS 7 Wheat Bran 11 Nutrient composition and value of wheat bran 12 Classification of Fiber 15 Nutritional and Biological Effects of Dietary Fiber 16 Chicken Ceca Microbiology 19 Short Chain Fatty Acids in the Chicken Ceca 21 Literature Cited 23 CHAPTER 3. EFFECTS OF HIGH FIBER INGREDIENTS ON THE PERFORMANCE, METABOLIZABLE ENERGY AND FIBER DIGESTIBILITY OF BROILER AND LAYER CHICKS 37 Abstract 37 Introduction 38 Material and Methods 40 Results 43 Discussion 44 Acknowledgements 47 Literature Cited 48 Figures and Tables 52
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