
%0 Journal Article
%A Rogel, AM 
%A Annison, EF 
%A Bryden, WL 
%A Balnave, D 
%T The digestion of wheat starch in broiler chickens
%J Australian Journal of Agricultural Research
%D 1987/06/01
%V 38
%N 3
%P 639-649
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AR9870639
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AR9870639 
%X Apparent metabolizable energy (AME) of wheat for 6-week-old male broiler chickens was highly correlated with starch digestibility when pelleted diets containing 820 g wheat per kg were fed. Starch isolated from low-AME wheats was hydrolysed in vitro by chicken pancreatic amylase as rapidly as starch from high-AME wheats. When included in semi-purified diets the isolated starches were completely digestible. Digestibility of starch was poor and highly variable when 3-week-old chickens were fed unpelleted wheat diets, but improved with age. Oat hulls improved the digestibility of starch in young chickens fed unpelleted diets. 
