Table 3.
Final chicken body weight (Final b. w., kg), fat percent of breast muscle (sum of fatty acids, g/100 g tissue wet weight), selenium concentration of breast muscle (mg Se/kg tissue) and Gpx activity (U/L) in whole blood in chickens with low Se in the diet (0.13 mg/kg feed) and high Se (1.1 mg/kg feed) and without or with linseed oil (LO)
| |
Selenium |
|
Linseed oil |
|
Low Se without LO |
High Se with LO |
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
Low |
High |
|
Without |
With |
|
|
||
| n = 33 | n = 32 | P | n = 32 | n = 33 | P | n = 16 | n = 16 | P | |
| Final b. w. |
1.28 |
1.27 |
0.842 |
1.28 |
1.27 |
0.600 |
1.29 |
1.27 |
0.604 |
| Fat percent |
0.80 |
0.95 |
0.109 |
0.95 |
0.80 |
0.091 |
0.85 |
0.84 |
0.913 |
| Se |
0.09 |
0.59 |
<0.001 |
0.34 |
0.33 |
0.809 |
0.09 |
0.59 |
<0.001 |
| Gpx activity | 364 | 932 | <0.001 | 662 | 625 | 0.631 | 359 | 897 | <0.001 |