Table 3.

Effect of Lonicerae flos and Turmeric extracts on the growth performance in broilers.

Items	CON	LTE300	LTE500	SEM	P value
					ANOVA	Linear	Quadratic
Body weight, g
Day 21	293.33	293.75	290.42	0.857	0.234	0.212	0.240
Day 38	744.58	753.46	776.90	6.332	0.085	0.035	0.535
Day 60	1790.70	1826.03	1855.68	11.793	0.062	0.022	0.892
21–38 d
ADFI (g/d)	60.34	60.34	62.39	0.549	0.228	0.140	0.373
ADG (g/d)	24.61	25.02	25.63	0.335	0.495	0.252	0.892
FCR	2.45	2.41	2.44	0.018	0.702	0.717	0.459
Mortality rate (%)	0.63	0.00	0.00	0.208	0.405	0.252	0.497
39–60 d
ADFI (g/d)	115.68	115.81	118.15	0.803	0.404	0.240	0.533
ADG (g/d)	47.71	48.98	49.32	0.352	0.139	0.064	0.498
FCR	2.43	2.37	2.39	0.018	0.418	0.458	0.279
Mortality rate (%)	1.28	1.28	1.28	0.386	1.000	1.000	1.000
21–60 d
ADFI (g/d)	90.78	90.85	93.06	0.604	0.228	0.134	0.397
ADG (g/d)	37.45b	38.31ab	39.11a	0.291	0.048	0.016	0.958
FCR	2.43	2.37	2.38	0.013	0.242	0.181	0.294
Mortality rate (%)	1.88	1.25	1.25	0.372	0.767	0.538	0.720

Abbreviations: ADFI, average daily feed intake; ADG, average daily gain; BW, body weight; CON, control group, basal diet; FCR, feed conversion ratio; LTE300, basal diet supplemented with 300 g/t LTE; LTE500, basal diet supplemented with 500 g/t LTE.

^a,bMeans within a row with different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).