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Table 2.

Effects of probiotic supplement on body weight (BW), average daily feed intake (ADFI, g DM/d), body weight gain (BWG, g), feed conversion ratio (FCR, g DM/g gain), and performance index (PI, %) of weaning rabbits

Items	Sex¹⁾		Treatments²⁾				SEM	p-value³⁾

	M	F	Control	BS	LA	BL		S	T	S×T
BW (g)
d 28	476.72	518.59	497.81	497.50	496.88	498.44	22.58	<0.001	0.999	0.821
d 42	864.06	921.41	847.81^b	886.56^ab	913.44^a	923.13^a	40.34	<0.001	0.006	0.225
d 70	1,566.00	1,659.44	1,506.31^b	1,598.19^ab	1,677.75^a	1,668.63^ab	119.17	0.038	0.032	0.746
d 28–d 42
ADFI	46.42	49.51	46.83	48.42	48.11	48.50	3.06	0.009	0.679	0.667
BWG	387.34	402.81	350.00^b	389.06^ab	416.56^a	424.69^a	44.62	0.338	0.013	0.299
FCR	1.68	1.72	1.87^a	1.74^ab	1.62^ab	1.60^b	0.20	0.711	0.029	0.117
d 42–d 70
ADFI	79.09	82.57	79.16	79.86	82.58	81.72	6.16	0.126	0.664	0.540
BWG	701.94	738.03	658.50	711.63	764.31	745.50	91.52	0.277	0.136	0.940
FCR	3.15	3.13	3.37	3.14	3.02	3.07	0.39	0.890	0.213	0.641
d 28–d 70
ADFI	68.20	71.55	68.39	69.38	71.09	70.64	4.55	0.050	0.632	0.587
BWG	1,089.28	1,140.84	1,008.50^b	1,100.69^ab	1,180.88^a	1,170.19^a	124.10	0.253	0.041	0.768
FCR	2.63	2.63	2.85	2.65	2.53	2.54	0.27	0.995	0.052	0.446
PI	60.44	63.50	53.43^b	60.74^ab	66.75^ab	66.96^a	9.62	0.379	0.033	0.508

SEM, standard error of the mean.

¹⁾

M: male; F: female.

²⁾

BS, control diet+B. subtilis; LA, control diet+L. acidophilus; BL, control diet+B. subtilis+L. acidophilus.

³⁾

S, sex; T, treatment; S×T, sex and treatment interaction.

^a,b

Means in a row with different superscripts are significantly different (p<0.05), n = 8.