
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rogel, AM 
A1  - Balnave, D 
A1  - Bryden, WL 
A1  - Annison, EF 
T1  - Improvement of raw potato starch digestion in chickens by feeding oat hulls and other fibrous feedstuffs
JF  - Australian Journal of Agricultural Research
JO  - Aust. J.  Agric. Res.
Y1  - 1987
VL  - 38
IS  - 3
SP  - 629
EP  - 637
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AR9870629 
N2  - Ground oat hulls significantly improved the digestion of raw potato starch for male broiler chickens. The improvement was dependent upon the level of oat hulls in the diet and the size of the oat hull particles. Rice hulls and barley hulls were as effective as oat hulls in improving raw potato starch digestion when fibre particles were larger than 1 mm in length. Wheat bran and hemicelluloses isolated from oat hulls had no effect on starch digestion. The improvement in raw potato starch digestion was accompanied by an accumulation of fibre in the gizzard and muscular hypertrophy of this organ. Broken raw potato starch granules were also observed in the gizzard contents. 
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