Table 2.

Effect of Natuzyme Plus¹⁾ inclusion in wheat-based diet on growth performance of broiler chickens from 11 to 42 d of age

	W	WN	C	SEM	p-value
ADFI (g)
11–24 d	56.4	58.2	56.6	1.34	0.45
25–42 d	161.5	166.0	163.0	2.60	0.31
11–42 d	115.5	118.8	116.5	1.82	0.27
ADG (g)
11–24 d	32.9b	38.7a	36.6a	0.95	<0.01
25–42 d	77.1b	86.6a	84.2a	1.33	<0.01
11–42 d	57.7b	65.5a	63.4a	1.02	<0.01
FCR (g:g)
11–24 d	1.72a	1.50c	1.55b	0.015	<0.01
25–42 d	2.08a	1.92b	1.94b	0.016	<0.01
11–42 d	2.00a	1.81b	1.83b	0.015	<0.01

W, wheat-based diet; WN, wheat-based diet+Natuzyme Plus; C, corn-based diet; SEM, Standard error of the mean; ADFI, average daily feed intake; ADG, average daily gain; FCR, feed conversion ratio.

¹⁾Natuzyme Plus was a powder form of cellulase (6,000,000 U/kg), xylanase (10,000,000 U/kg), β-glucanase (700,000 U/kg), α-amylase (700,000 U/kg), pectinase (70,000 U/kg), phytase (500,000 U/kg), proteases (acid and neutral; 3,000,000 U/kg) and lipase (30,000 U/kg) and used 500 mg/kg of the diet.

^a–cWithin a column, means without a common superscript differ (p<0.05).