Table 4.
Effect of dietary mangosteen peel preparations on tibia characteristics in broiler chickens1.
Item2 | CON3 | MspP | MspE |
SEM | P-value | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0.1% | 0.05% | |||||
Fresh tibia weight, g/100 g of live BW |
0.783 | 0.796 | 0.786 | 0.795 | 0.034 | 0.995 |
Length, cm | 7.544 | 7.548 | 7.495 | 7.388 | 0.067 | 0.563 |
Width, cm | 0.559 | 0.530 | 0.531 | 0.543 | 0.010 | 0.242 |
Strength, kgf | 15.92 | 14.33 | 15.41 | 15.03 | 0.585 | 0.461 |
Dry matter, % | 36.71 | 36.34 | 36.99 | 37.59 | 0.373 | 0.385 |
Ash/fat-free dry matter, % | 43.96 | 42.85 | 42.93 | 43.53 | 0.559 | 0.614 |
Values are least squares means representing 8 observations.
BW, body weight.
CON, control diet; MspP, 2% mangosteen peel powder; 0.1% MspE, 0.1% mangosteen peel extract; 0.05% MspE, 0.05% mangosteen peel extract; SEM = standard errors of the means.