Table 5.
Effects of NCCC supplementation on slaughter performance of yellow-feathered broilers1
| Items | Groups2 | SEM | P-value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON | N50 | N100 | N200 | Diet | Linear | Quadratic | ||
| Dressing percentage, % | 90.96 | 91.15 | 90.35 | 90.42 | 0.231 | 0.556 | 0.251 | 0.521 |
| Semi-eviscerated slaughter ratio, % | 86.07 | 86.11 | 85.44 | 85.30 | 0.261 | 0.605 | 0.207 | 0.451 |
| Eviscerated slaughter ratio, % | 70.52 | 71.58 | 70.29 | 70.75 | 0.339 | 0.596 | 0.861 | 0.916 |
| Thigh muscle rate, % | 19.81 | 20.45 | 19.19 | 19.98 | 0.280 | 0.492 | 0.930 | 0.842 |
| Breast muscle rate, % | 13.27 | 13.88 | 13.89 | 13.77 | 0.271 | 0.840 | 0.654 | 0.569 |
1 n = 5.
2Group CON: basal diet; Group N50: basal diet added with 50 mg/kg nano-composite of copper and carbon (NCCC); Group N100: basal diet added with 100 mg/kg NCCC; Group N200: basal diet added with 200 mg/kg NCCC.