Table 4.
Items | CON | LTE300 | LTE500 | SEM |
P value |
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ANOVA | Linear | Quadratic | |||||
38 d | |||||||
Liver index (g/kg) | 35.97 | 37.26 | 38.01 | 0.474 | 0.224 | 0.091 | 0.949 |
Spleen index (g/kg) | 1.54 | 1.68 | 1.49 | 0.094 | 0.724 | 1.000 | 0.431 |
Bursal index (g/kg) | 3.11 | 2.98 | 3.71 | 0.187 | 0.223 | 0.221 | 0.212 |
60 d | |||||||
Liver index (g/kg) | 26.06b | 29.71a | 25.18b | 0.822 | 0.044 | 0.848 | 0.014 |
Spleen index (g/kg) | 1.10b | 1.19ab | 1.42a | 0.055 | 0.036 | 0.016 | 0.338 |
Bursal index (g/kg) | 2.07 | 2.07 | 1.98 | 0.093 | 0.923 | 0.749 | 0.820 |
Abbreviations: CON, control group, basal diet; LTE300, basal diet supplemented with 300 g/t LTE; LTE500, basal diet supplemented with 500 g/t LTE.
Means within a row with different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).