Effects of dietary inclusion of rice bran on production performance and ileal digestibility of nutrients in broiler chickens

Effects of dietary inclusion of rice bran on production performance, carcass characteristics, ileal digestibility of nutrients and some blood parameters were studied using 240 day-old (mixture of male and female chickens) Ross broiler chicken which assigned in a completely randomized design to four treatments with five replicates of 12 birds each. The experimental treatments included control diet and diets containing 2.5, five and 7.5% of rice bran. The results of this study showed that although dietary inclusion of rice bran for all inclusion levels resulted in significant reduction (P0.05). Feeding chicks with diets containing 7.5% rice bran significantly elevatedserum concentration of glucose compared with those fed diets containing 2.5 and 5% rice bran (P