Abstract
An apparatus designed to simplify analytical procedures for determining fibre in food was used to measure fibre of similar composition to crude fibre, acid-detergent fibre and neutral-detergent fibre in 27 samples of sorghum grain. The metabolizable energy content of these grains for poultry was predicted from the three fibre methods with precision, respectively, of ± 0.49, ± 0.62 and ± 0.53 MJ/kg dry matter. These values corresponded to coefficients of variation of ± 3.0, ± 3.8 and ± 3.3%. The three fibre fractions were highly correlated with each other, and so a simple method that can measure a part of the total fibre is suitable for predicting the energy value of sorghum grain for poultry.
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