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Table 2.

Effect of yeast with bacteriocin (BA), Lactobacillus cultures (LAB) and mixture of both supplementations on the growth performance of broiler chickens

Component	Treatment¹⁾					SEM	p-value

	Control	YC	BA	LAB	BA+LAB
1–21 d
Feed intake (g)	936^a	715^b	720^b	826^ab	801^ab	40.6	0.026
BWG (g)	614	583	580	593	618	15.1	0.208
FCR	1.53^a	1.23^b	1.24^b	1.39^ab	1.30^b	0.068	0.018
22–35 d
Feed intake (g)	1,534^b	1,688^ab	1,749^ab	1,705^ab	1,970^a	70.3	0.034
BWG (g)	979	1,062^ab	1,133^ab	1,119^ab	1,160^a	60.3	0.032
FCR	1.57	1.59	1.54	1.52	1.70	0.011	0.681
1–35 d
Feed intake (g)	2,456^ab	2,256^b	2,300^b	2,299^b	2,592^a	62.8	0.044
BWG (g)	1,593^b	1,645^ab	1,713^ab	1,712^ab	1,778^a	66.6	0.033
FCR	1.54	1.37	1.34	1.34	1.46	0.074	0.167

SEM, standard error of the mean; BWG, body weight gain; FCR, feed conversion rate (feed/gain).

¹⁾

Control, basal diet; YC, yeast control (basal diet+0.25% Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast powder); BA, basal diet+0.25% yeast with bacteriocin; LAB, basal diet+Lactobacillus cultures; BA+LAB, basal diet+0.25% yeast with bacteriocin+Lactobacillus cultures.

^a,b

Means with different superscripts with in the same row differ significantly (p<0.05).