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The effect of peanut pod as insoluble fiber source in diets on growth performance, small intestine morphology and nutrient digestibility of broilers was evaluated. This study was conducted using 320 Ross-308 broiler chickens in a completely randomized design with four treatments diets (containing 0 (control), 2.5, five or 7.5 percent peanut pod), with five replicates and 16 birds in each from 11 to 42 days of age. At the growth phase (11 to 24 d) dietary peanut pod decreased feed intake and feed conversion ratio, however, the birds that fed the diet containing 7.5 percent had higher daily weight gain (P<0.05). Peanut pod improved the digestibility coefficients of dry matter and ether extract and the diets containing 2.5 or 5.0 percent peanut pod had more organic matter digestibility than the control diet (P<0.05) Chicks that fed the diets containing 5.0 or 7.5 percent peanut pod, the villous was (P<0.05) longer than control birds. The results of present study suggest that using peanut pod up to 7.5 percent of diet did not adversely affect chickens growth performance and can improve feed conversion ratio at the grower phase.
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