Table 3.

The effects of supplemental BAs on the growth performance of geese^a.

Items	Treatment				p-value
	0	75 mg/kg	150 mg/kg	300 mg/kg	ANOVA	Linear	Quadratic
BW, g
28d	1165.26 ± 206.95	1170.98 ± 154.14	1166.33 ± 203.65	1166.67 ± 238.62	0.999	0.904	0.991
35d	1770.24 ± 189.73	1762.52 ± 174.93	1762.21 ± 219.64	1754.86 ± 206.08	0.988	0.823	0.944
49d	2998.29 ± 316.94	3063.50 ± 319.07	3139.62 ± 370.18	3068.14 ± 319.41	0.286	0.590	0.317
63d	3878.79 ± 348.67	3982.95 ± 435.42	4011.40 ± 426.14	3929.00 ± 362.53	0.427	0.400	0.571
ADFI, g/d
28–35d	293.64 ± 1.49	294.86 ± 1.93	294.8 ± 2.12	293.71 ± 0.76	0.424	0.117	0.302
35–49d	305.55 ± 4.63	300.09 ± 2.60	306.80 ± 7.86	306.18 ± 3.50	0.116	0.088	0.052
49–63d	364.27 ± 6.35	366.43 ± 7.03	359.58 ± 12.48	354.23 ± 8.91	0.124	0.950	0.097
35–63d	334.91 ± 3.66	333.26 ± 3.63	333.19 ± 8.42	330.21 ± 5.70	0.559	0.450	0.447
ADG, g
28–35d	86.43 ± 8.40	86.74 ± 7.43	85.78 ± 8.95	85.08 ± 8.31	0.802	0.773	0.637
35–49d	87.72 ± 15.72b	92.93 ± 16.85ab	98.39 ± 17.44a	93.81 ± 14.97ab	0.031	0.335	0.048
49–63d	62.89 ± 12.31	65.68 ± 14.75	62.28 ± 11.41	61.49 ± 13.34	0.484	0.401	0.345
35–63d	75.31 ± 10.18	79.30 ± 13.77	80.34 ± 12.13	77.65 ± 11.16	0.235	0.260	0.349
F/G
28–35d	3.40 ± 0.13	3.40 ± 0.11	3.44 ± 0.15	3.46 ± 0.11	0.837	0.956	0.657
35–49d	3.48 ± 0.26a	3.23 ± 0.10b	3.12 ± 0.12b	3.27 ± 0.15b	0.010	0.108	0.034
49–63d	5.80 ± 0.27	5.62 ± 0.53	5.79 ± 0.36	5.78 ± 0.41	0.837	0.430	0.658
35–63d	4.47 ± 0.26a	4.21 ± 0.21b	4.15 ± 0.11b	4.25 ± 0.14ab	0.046	0.088	0.063

^aDifferent lowercase letters with the same column date meant significant difference (P < 0.05).