Table 5.

Effect of Natuzyme Plus¹⁾ inclusion in wheat-based diet on the relative weight (% live BW) of carcass, breast, thigh+drumstick, heart, liver, pancreas, abdominal fat pad in broiler chickens

	W	WN	C	SEM	p-value
Carcass	72.7b	74.0a	73.9a	0.45	<0.05
Breast	27.6	27.2	27.3	0.49	0.83
Thigh+drumstick	25.0	25.4	24.9	0.38	0.46
Heart	0.45a	0.41b	0.42b	0.012	<0.05
Liver	2.58a	2.36b	2.34b	0.059	<0.01
Pancreas	0.30a	0.23b	0.22b	0.013	<0.01
Abdominal fat pad	1.95	1.89	1.95	0.037	0.28

BW, body weight; W, wheat-based diet; WN, wheat-based diet+Natuzyme Plus; C, corn-based diet; SEM, standard error of the mean.

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,bWithin a column, means without a common superscript differ (p<0.05).