Table 4.
Effects of fermented products on broiler growth performance.
| Item | Treatment1 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON | ENM | SFP | LFP | SEM2 | P-value3 | |
| Body weight (g/bird) | ||||||
| 1 d | 41.9 | 41.9 | 41.9 | 42.0 | 0.02 | 0.336 |
| 35 d | 1712.4b | 1782.1ab | 1731.0b | 1908.0a | 22.02 | 0.003 |
| Average daily gain (g/d/bird) | ||||||
| 1–14 d | 24.5 | 25.7 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 0.36 | 0.640 |
| 15–35 d | 64.0b | 66.2ab | 64.0b | 70.6a | 0.86 | 0.011 |
| 1–35 d | 48.2b | 50.0ab | 48.3b | 52.4a | 0.55 | 0.019 |
| Average daily feed intake (g/d/bird) | ||||||
| 1–14 d | 28.5 | 29.5 | 28.2 | 28.3 | 0.34 | 0.564 |
| 15–35 d | 105.6 | 104.2 | 102.7 | 110.7 | 1.57 | 0.313 |
| 1–35 d | 74.8 | 74.4 | 72.9 | 77.7 | 0.99 | 0.382 |
| Feed conversion ratio | ||||||
| 1–14 d | 1.16 | 1.15 | 1.13 | 1.16 | 0.01 | 0.677 |
| 15–35 d | 1.66 | 1.58 | 1.61 | 1.57 | 0.03 | 0.648 |
| 1–35 d | 1.55 | 1.49 | 1.51 | 1.48 | 0.02 | 0.621 |
| Mortality rate (%) | ||||||
| 1–35 d | 2.5b | 12.5ab | 5.0ab | 15.0a | 1.78 | 0.030 |
1
CON = Basal diet; ENM = Basal diet supplemented with enramycin; SFP = Basal diet supplemented with B. subtilis–fermented products; LFP = Basal diet supplemented with B. licheniformis–fermented products.
2
SEM = standard error of means.
3
P-value was obtained by ANOVA.
a-b
Means in the row without common superscripts are significantly different (P ≤ 0.05). Mean value representing results from 8 replicate cages per treatment (n = 8).