. 2023 Jul 18;102(10):102940. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2023.102940

Table 5.

Effects of feeding flaxseed (FFF) and yeast bioactives (YB) to Lohmann LSL-Lite pullets from hatch through to 16 wk of age (woa) on lymphoid organs weight (g/kg BW).¹

		FFF inclusion, %			YB inclusion, %				P-value
										Response to FFF		Response to YB
Item	Control	1	3	5	0.025	0.05	0.1	SEM	Overall	Linear	Quadratic	Linear	Quadratic
Thymus
4 woa	10.58^a	8.55^b	9.20^b	8.94^b	6.90^c	7.49^c	6.91^c	0.31	0.001	0.094	0.037^C	0.001	0.027^Q
8 woa	8.86	7.78	7.51	6.05	8.05	8.04	7.19	0.29	0.261	0.012	0.018^C	0.130	0.990
12 woa	5.42	5.39	5.67	5.00	5.62	5.97	5.89	0.14	0.680	0.544	0.369	0.323	0.834
16 woa	3.47	3.21	4.18	3.43	3.50	3.51	3.05	0.12	0.117	0.610	0.123	0.240	0.163
Spleen
4 woa	2.16	2.16	2.13	2.07	2.05	2.11	2.21	0.05	0.988	0.654	0.829	0.731	0.479
8 woa	2.02	2.03	2.03	2.07	2.23	2.23	2.14	0.03	0.395	0.705	0.838	0.335	0.148
12 woa	1.96	2.00	2.16	1.96	2.15	2.21	2.20	0.04	0.449	0.762	0.296	0.138	0.398
16 woa	1.88	1.78	1.73	1.92	2.13	1.90	1.90	0.04	0.085	0.876	0.130	0.670	0.150
Bursa
4 woa	7.65	6.81	6.49	5.96	6.97	6.93	7.52	0.19	0.225	0.017	0.034^C	0.846	0.194
8 woa	5.05	4.13	4.99	5.16	4.36	4.66	4.81	0.13	0.211	0.391	0.096^Q	0.789	0.206
12 woa	3.92	4.35	4.57	3.79	3.87	4.14	4.09	0.08	0.170	0.877	0.009^Q	0.390	0.880
16 woa	2.66	3.10	3.08	2.72	2.91	2.68	2.68	0.09	0.447	0.845	0.069 ^Q	0.776	0.706

Co-extruded full-fat flaxseed and pulse mixture (FFF, 1:1 wt/wt), as a source of a-linolenic acid; Enzymatically bio-processed yeast cell walls from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, as a source of yeast bioactives.

^a-c

Within a row, LSmeans without a common superscript differ P < 0.05.