. 2023 Jun 16;102(9):102874. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2023.102874

Table 7.

Effects of dietary essential oil supplementation and Eimeria challenge on nutrient compositions of broiler breast and thigh at 42 d of age (%, n = 6).

		Breast²				Thigh
Diet¹	Eimeria¹	Moisture	Protein	Fat	Ash	Moisture	Protein	Fat	Ash
Control		75.19	22.19	0.79	1.27	77.13	19.17	2.28	1.23
Anticoccidial		75.15	22.21	0.86	1.27	77.06	19.04	2.44	1.26
Oregano		74.96	22.69	0.74	1.30	77.24	18.83	2.42	1.26
Clove		74.78	22.85	0.81	1.31	76.79	19.44	2.22	1.27
SEM		0.343	0.305	0.083	0.024	0.227	0.189	0.180	0.023
	No	75.11	22.44	0.85	1.29	76.72^b	19.37^a	2.44	1.27
	Yes	74.93	22.53	0.74	1.28	77.39^a	18.87^b	2.24	1.24
	SEM	0.243	0.216	0.059	0.017	0.160	0.134	0.127	0.016
Control	No	75.26	22.07	0.87	1.28^ab	76.72	19.45	2.63	1.26
Anticoccidial	No	75.82	21.67	0.86	1.23^b	76.82	19.01	2.57	1.27
Oregano	No	74.65	23.09	0.74	1.36^a	76.94	19.43	2.09	1.29
Clove	No	74.69	22.96	0.95	1.30^ab	76.41	19.60	2.46	1.26
Control	Yes	75.13	22.32	0.70	1.26^ab	77.53	18.89	1.93	1.20
Anticoccidial	Yes	74.47	22.76	0.85	1.30^ab	77.31	19.07	2.32	1.26
Oregano	Yes	75.27	22.30	0.74	1.23^b	77.54	18.22	2.75	1.23
Clove	Yes	74.86	22.75	0.68	1.32^ab	77.17	19.28	1.98	1.29
SEM		0.485	0.432	0.117	0.034	0.321	0.267	0.254	0.032
P value
Diet		0.818	0.316	0.763	0.564	0.568	0.163	0.779	0.547
Eimeria		0.616	0.773	0.188	0.556	0.006	0.012	0.289	0.247
Eimeria × Diet		0.210	0.179	0.586	0.035	0.955	0.145	0.066	0.482

No: unchallenged broilers received aliquot of dilution at d 10. Yes: challenged broilers received sporulated 10⁴ oocysts of E. tenella, E. acervulina, and E. maxima at d 10. Control: a corn and soybean meal basal diet, anticoccidial: control diet + 60 g nicarbazin and 60 g narasin per ton of feed, oregano: control diet + 500 ppm oregano oil, and clove: control diet + 500 ppm clove oil.

^a,b

Means in a column with different superscript letters are different at а = 0.05 level.