Effect of Terminalia catappa Fruit Meal Fermented by Aspergillus niger as Replacement of Maize on Growth Performance, Nutrient Digestibility, and Serum Biochemical Profile of Broiler Chickens

Table 1

Formulation (g kg^-1) of the experimental diets.

	Diets
	1	2	3	4	5
Ingredients
Maize	450.00	360.00	270.00	180.00	90.00
FTCM^a	0.00	90.00	180.00	270.00	360.00
Soybean meal	324.00	324.00	324.00	324.00	324.00
Wheat offal	115.00	113.00	110.00	108.00	103.00
Cassava flour	34.00	36.00	39.00	41.00	46.00
Fish meal	30.00	30.00	30.00	30.00	30.00
Blood meal	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00
Bone meal	20.00	20.00	20.00	20.00	20.00
Oyster shell	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00
DL-Methionine	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Lysine	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Vit/min premix^b	2.50	2.50	2.50	2.50	2.50
Salt	2.50	2.50	2.50	2.50	2.50
Total	1000.00	1000.00	1000.00	1000.00	1000.00
Proximate composition c (g kg^-1)
Dry matter	970.0	967.8	960.1	963.6	958.6
Crude protein	230.1	227.4	226.8	223.5	221.5
Crude fibre	45.2	52.6	58.1	73.5	84.9
Fat	41.5	49.1	56.3	65.2	73.8
Ash	37.5	36.3	35.6	35.3	34.9
Metabolisable energy (MJkg^-1)	12.02	11.67	11.39	11.26	11.18

aFermented Terminalia catappa whole fruit meal.
bProvided 1.5 mg retinol, 25 mg cholecalciferol, 16 mg 𝛼-tocopherol, 1mg menadione, 0.8 mg thiamine, 2.4 mg riboflavin, 14 mg nicotinic acid, 4 mg calcium D-pantothenate, 1.4 mg pyridoxine, 10 mg cyanocobalamin, 0.4 mg folic acid, 0.02 mg biotin, 120 mg choline chloride, 0.62 mg zinc bacitracin, 36 mg avaten, 40 mg Mn, 18 mg Zn, 0.8 mg Cu, 0.09 mg Co, 20 mg Fe, and 0.04 mg Se kg^-1 diet.
cDetermined values except for metabolisable energy (ME), which was calculated from the published [21] compositions of the ingredients used and the ME of FTCM, was estimated from its analytical data [22].