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Table 2.

The differences in growth performance and carcass traits among quails with different plumage colour

Variables	Quails with different plumage colour				RSD	P value
Variables	White	Golden	Gray	Brown	RSD	P value
BW 0 day (g)	7.10	7.00	7.04	7.06	0.521	0.456
BW 2 weeks (g)	48.81^a	47.67^b	44.70^c	43.26^d	1.18	<0.001
BW 4 weeks (g)	193.56^a	187.79^a	179.90^b	161.66^c	29.05	<0.001
BW 6 weeks (g)	205.16^a	194.46^b	188.61^b	174.68^c	30.82	<0.001
Slaughter weight (g)*	197.27^a	185.02^b	178.93^c	164.47^d	4.67	<0.001
Carcass weight (g)	169.27^a	159.50^b	152.10^c	141.73^d	5.10	<0.001
Carcass yield (%)	82^a	82^a	81^b	81^b	7.69 × 10⁻³	<0.001
Liver weight (g)	6.63^a	6.03^b	6.00^b	4.13^c	0.50	<0.001
Gizzard weight (g)	6.53^a	5.90^b	5.83^b	3.77^c	0.29	<0.001
Heart weight (g)	2.27^a	1.87^b	1.63^c	1.30^d	0.16	<0.001
Spleen weight (g)	0.40^a	0.37^b	0.33^c	0.10^d	0.06	<0.001

Means in the same row with a common superscript letter or without superscript letters did not differ significantly (P > 0.05) based on Tukey’s honest significant difference (HSD)

RSD residual standard deviation

* Slaughter weight (g): the weight after bleeding