Table 5.
Effects of fermented products on broiler intestinal morphology.
| Item | Treatment1 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON | ENM | SFP | LFP | SEM2 | P-value3 | ||
| Duodenum | Villus height (μm) | 1833.9ab | 1698.8b | 1860.9ab | 1981.5a | 35.50 | 0.029 |
| Crypt depth (μm) | 145.6 | 148.6 | 129.1 | 169.4 | 8.95 | 0.730 | |
| Villus height: crypt depth | 12.7 | 12.3 | 14.8 | 14.4 | 0.70 | 0.541 | |
| Jejunum | Villus height (μm) | 907.3ab | 870.6ab | 809.1b | 946.2a | 18.61 | 0.048 |
| Crypt depth (μm) | 128.1 | 123.6 | 104.1 | 121.1 | 5.17 | 0.398 | |
| Villus height: crypt depth | 7.3 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 0.33 | 0.840 | |
| Ileum | Villus height (μm) | 711.0 | 677.5 | 718.5 | 718.0 | 14.67 | 0.750 |
| Crypt depth (μm) | 107.6 | 115.1 | 105.6 | 124.1 | 4.46 | 0.471 | |
| Villus height: crypt depth | 6.7 | 6.1 | 7.0 | 5.9 | 0.26 | 0.410 | |
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-c
Mean values in the row without identical superscripted letters are significantly different (P ≤ 0.05). Mean value representing results from 4 replicate cages per treatment (n = 4).