. 2024 May 15;103(8):103858. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2024.103858

Table 2.

Effect of immersion Japanese quail eggs with different levels of riboflavin on total body weight, body weight gain, feed consumption and feed conversion ratio from 1 to 6 wk of age.

Items	Wks.	Immersion treated group, (g/L)				SEM	P- value¹
Items	Wks.	Control	3g	4g	5g	SEM	T	L	Q
Body weight (g)	1	192.25^b	223.75^a	215.00^a	222.00^a	2.95	0.004	0.110	0.033
	3	1,112.75^d	1,169.00^c	1,187.25^b	1,197.50^a	3.47	0.001	0.004	0.002
	6	1,364.0^c	1,486.75^b	1,490.50^a	1,496.50^a	1.47	0.004	0.411	0.353
Body weight gain (g)	1-3	920.50^c	945.25^b	972.25^ab	975.50^a	5.21	0.010	0.014	0.013
	3-6	251.25^c	317.75^a	303.25^a	299.00^b	3.55	0.043	0.046	0.044
	1-6	1171.75^c	1263.00^b	1275.50^a	1274.50^a	2.44	0.017	0.015	0.018
Feed consumption (g)	1-3	1849.60^c	1857.72^b	1860.70^a	1865.63^a	1.35	0.015	0.014	0.017
	3-6	1871.66^c	1876.79^ab	1879.03^ab	1881.06^a	1.36	0.018	0.015	0.019
	1-6	4575.46^c	4591.52^b	4596.12^b	4607.13^a	1.22	0.001	0.038	0.045
Feed conversion ratio (g)	1-3	2.02^a	1.97^b	1.92^b	1.92^b	1.88	0.004	0.002	0.006
	3-6	7.65^a	5.93^c	6.20^b	6.30^b	2.34	0.002	0.001	0.002
	1-6	3.91^a	3.64^b	3.61^b	3.62^b	1.67	0.015	0.016	0.018

^a,b

Means are bearing different letters in the same row differ significantly (P < 0.05, 0.001).

T, overall effects of treatments; L, linear effects of increasing riboflavin levels of quails; Q, quadratic effects of increasing riboflavin levels of quails.