Table 7.
Effect of dietary treatments on carcass characteristics, liver and fat weight.
| Treatments¹ |
P-value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item (%) | NC | PC | V500 | V1,000 | V1,500 | SEM4 | ANOVA | Linear | Quadratic |
| HCY² | 69.71 | 69.87 | 69.64 | 70.47 | 69.22 | 0.13 | 0.061 | 0.722 | 0.779 |
| CCY³ | 70.72 | 70.80 | 70.69 | 71.40 | 70.43 | 0.14 | 0.278 | 0.875 | 0.792 |
| Breast | 29.43 | 28.66 | 29.00 | 29.11 | 29.05 | 0.11 | 0.324 | 0.177 | 0.129 |
| Thighs | 31.86 | 31.77 | 31.74 | 31.63 | 32.11 | 0.09 | 0.552 | 0.436 | 0.421 |
| Wing | 10.34 | 10.32 | 10.39 | 10.07 | 10.18 | 0.05 | 0.310 | 0.345 | 0.753 |
| Tender lones | 6.41 | 6.22 | 6.29 | 6.16 | 6.19 | 0.04 | 0.418 | 0.537 | 0.866 |
| Liver | 1.80 | 1.86 | 1.86 | 1.84 | 1.83 | 0.02 | 0.865 | 0.104 | 0.336 |
| Abdominal Fat | 1.41 | 1.59 | 1.36 | 1.34 | 1.46 | 0.03 | 0.110 | 0.528 | 0.076 |
1
NC – Control diet, without growth promoter antimicrobials; PC – Control diet, added 0.12g/ton of Enramycin (8%); 500 - Control diet, added 500 g/ton of Viligen; 1,000 - Control diet, added 1,000 g/ton of Viligen; 1,500 - Control diet, added 1,500 g/ton of Viligen.
2
HCY= Hot Carcass Yield.
3
CCY = Cold Carcass Yield.
4
SEM = Standard error of the mean