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A total of 448 Ross 308 male broilers were allocated to eight dietary treatments with eight replicates in a randomized complete block design. Experimental diets included one nitrogen-free diet and seven test diets, each containing one of the following feed ingredients\u2014dehulled soybean meal (SBM), fermented SBM (FSBM), rapeseed meal (RM), copra meal (CM), palm kernel meal (PKM), corn distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), and fish meal (FM), as the sole source of AA. On day 21, all birds were euthanized and subsequently ileal digesta was collected from the distal two-thirds of the ileum, extending from Meckel\u2019s diverticulum to 1 cm proximal to the ileocecal junction. The ileal digestibility of AA in the FM was the greatest, followed by the SBM. The ileal digestibility for AA in the SBM was greater than that in the RM. The ileal AA digestibility in the RM was greater than or not different from that in the FSBM, except for Val and Pro, and superior to the CM and the PKM. The ileal digestibility of AA in the FSBM was greater than or not different from those in corn DDGS, except for Met and Cys. Corn DDGS exhibited greater or not different ileal digestibility of AA compared to that of the CM and the PKM, except for Val and Asp, and the PKM was the lowest. In conclusion, the ileal digestibility of AA was the greatest in the FM, followed by the SBM, FSBM, the RM, corn DDGS, the CM, and the PKM. 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