. 2017 Apr 17;96(8):2728–2735. doi: 10.3382/ps/pex082

Table 3.

Evaluation of body weight, body weight gain, feed intake, and feed conversion ratio in broiler chickens consuming a corn-DDGS-soybean grower diet with or without dietary inclusion of a Bacillus-direct-fed microbial (DFM) (Experiment 2).¹

Item	Control	Bacillus-DFM
Body weight (g)
d 0	39.7 ± 0.2^a	39.9 ± 0.3^a
d 7	115.3 ± 1.7^a	116.2 ± 1.5^a
d 28	1409.0 ± 7.9^b	1444.0 ± 12.6^a
Body weight gain (g)
d 0 to 7	75.6 ± 1.8^a	76.3 ± 1.6^a
d 8 to 28	1294.1 ± 8.7^b	1328.6 ± 12.1^a
d 0 to 28	1369.7 ± 7.9^b	1404.8 ± 12.6^a
Feed intake (g)
d 0 to 7	130.8 ± 3.2^a	130.5 ± 2.3^a
d 8 to 28	1879.0 ± 10.2^a	1838.0 ± 13.3^b
d 0 to 28	2010.0 ± 9.7^a	1966.6 ± 13.6^b
Feed conversion ratio
d 0 to 7	1.13 ± 0.01^a	1.12 ± 0.02^a
d 8 to 28	1.45 ± 0.03^a	1.38 ± 0.01^b
d 0 to 28	1.43 ± 0.02^a	1.36 ± 0.01^b

¹Data are expressed as mean ± SE.

^a,bMeans in each row with different superscripts are significantly different (P < 0.05).