Table 5.

Effect of C. butyricum on fatty acid contents (mg/g of dried meat) of breast meat

Item a	Control	CB1	CB2	CB3	Antibiotic	Pooled SE	P -value
C14:0	0.155	0.157	0.165	0.189	0.168	0.018	0.6914
C15:0	0.020	0.027	0.016	0.034	0.018	0.006	0.2711
C16:0	8.18	9.03	10.68	9.34	9.31	0.85	0.3929
C17:0	0.041	0.049	0.048	0.065	0.041	0.006	0.0649
C18:0	3.66b	4.29b	5.39a	4.47ab	4.31b	0.32	0.0166
C20:0	0.064	0.132	0.106	0.085	0.083	0.020	0.2094
ΣSFA	12.12	13.69	16.41	14.18	13.93	1.18	0.1935
C14:1	0.017	0.016	0.004	0.016	0.015	0.007	0.6861
C16:1c	1.09	1.05	1.22	1.03	1.07	0.17	0.9427
C18:1 t	0.169	0.166	0.209	0.210	0.163	0.020	0.2673
C18:1c	9.01	10.50	13.31	11.39	10.76	1.35	0.3024
C20:1n-9	0.112c	0.190ab	0.209a	0.152abc	0.145bc	0.021	0.0277
C22:1n-9	0.018	0.051	0.042	0.043	0.047	0.009	0.1230
ΣMUFA	10.42	11.97	14.99	12.84	12.20	1.54	0.3710
C18:2 t-9, t-12	0.008	0.032	0.020	0.016	0.006	0.007	0.0917
C18:2c	7.94	9.81	12.77	10.69	10.64	1.05	0.0552
C18:3n-6	0.022	0.031	0.013	0.023	0.021	0.006	0.3856
C18:3n-3	0.456	0.606	0.769	0.676	0.693	0.089	0.1965
C20:2n-6	0.233b	0.374a	0.424a	0.327ab	0.341a	0.036	0.0106
C20:3n-6	0.070c	0.130b	0.195a	0.110b	0.100bc	0.011	<.0001
C20:3n-3	0.415c	0.573b	0.725a	0.512bc	0.540bc	0.048	0.0016
C20:4n-6	1.20c	1.80bc	3.35a	2.24b	2.22b	0.21	<.0001
C20:5n-3	0.100c	0.143ab	0.181a	0.123bc	0.123bc	0.014	0.0047
C22:6n-3	0.201b	0.341a	0.366a	0.301a	0.293a	0.026	0.0010
ΣPUFA	10.60c	13.86bc	18.04a	15.67ab	14.98ab	1.37	0.0103
PUFA/SFA	0.87d	1.01c	1.14a	1.07bc	1.08ab	0.02	<.0001

Means with different letters within the same row differ (P < 0.05).

Control = basal diet; CB1 = the basal diet supplemented with 2.5 × 10⁸ cfu of C. butyricum/kg; CB2 = the basal diet supplemented with 5 × 10⁸ cfu of C. butyricum/kg; CB3 = the basal diet supplemented with 1 × 10⁹ cfu of C. butyricum/kg; Antibiotic = the basal diet supplemented with 150 mg of aureomycin/kg.

c = cis; t = trans.

^aEach value represents the mean of 8 cages with one chick per cage (n = 8 per treatment).