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Experiment was conducted for 9 weeks to test performance and carcass quality of 96 day-old Anak broiler chicks fed diets containing graded levels of palm oil supplemented with vitamin E. The inclusion levels of the palm oil were 0, 5, 10 and 16% supplemented with 0, 0.06, 0.12 and 0.18g of vitamin E/kg of feed tested at starter phase (1-5wks) as diets 1 - 4 and finisher phase (6-9wks) as diets 5 - 8. The diets were formulated such that diets 1 and 5 (control diets) had no palm oil and vitamin E while others 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 (test diets) had palm oil and vitamin E at the respective levels mentioned above. The energy and protein levels at the starter phase were 12.35 MJME/kg and 23% crude protein (CP) while at the finisher phase, energy and protein levels were 12.60 MJME/kg and 20% CP. The average feed intake of the birds on diets 3 and 4 were significantly increased (P