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. 2013 May;26(5):705–710. doi: 10.5713/ajas.2012.12633

Table 4.

Carcass yield and traits of broiler chickens fed different lipid sources

Item	Experimental diets¹
Item	T	CO	SFO	TCO	TSFO	SEM	p-value
Full carcass weight (g)	1,805	1,774	1,835	2,019	1,970	51.6	NS
Empty carcass weight (g)	1,295	1,301	1,395	1,505	1,533	49.2	NS
Eviscerated carcass (%)	66.7	67.1	69.9	67.5	69.5	0.77	NS
Breast weight (g )	486^b	445^b	515^ab	557^a	522^ab	27.2	0.041
Breast yield (%)	24.2^ab	22.9^b	25.8^a	25.0^ab	24.8^ab	0.41	0.027
Drumstick weight (g)	420^ab	365^b	429^ab	472^ab	488^a	23.9	0.044
Drumstick yield (%)	22.8	18.6	22.5	21.2	22.0	0.46	NS
Wings weight (g)	127^b	121^b	134^ab	134^ab	142^a	7.9	0.035
Wings yield (%)	6.6	6.3	6.8	6.0	6.3	0.12	NS
Abdominal fat weight	43.4^c	19.8^b	15.1^a	26.1^c	25.3	0.62	0.008
Abdominal fat yield (%)	2.21^b	1.01^ab	0.75^a	2.28^b	2.61^b	0.13	<0.001

¹

T = 4% tallow; CO = 4% canola oil; SFO = 4% sunflower oil; TCO = 2% tallow+2% canola oil; TSFO = 2% tallow+2% sunflower oil.

^a–c

Means within treatment with no common superscript differ significantly. NS = Not significant.