Table 2.

Effect of dietary treatment on body weight (BW), average daily gain (ADG) and feed conversion efficiency (FCE).

Item	Sampling time	C	L	SEM	P
	T1	45.18	45.13	0.396	0.930
BW	T2	511.67 b	550.66 a	8.159	<0.001
	T3	1444.03 b	1636.40 a	18.845	<0.001
	T1-T2	22.21 b	24.07 a	0.549	0.038
ADG	T2-T3	44.39 b	51.70 a	1.082	<0.001
	OVERALL	34.97 b	39.78 a	0.0591	<0.001
	T1-T2	2.57 a	2.31 b	0.052	0.018
FCE	T2-T3	3.13 a	2.68 b	0.118	0.028
	OVERALL	2.94 a	2.56 b	0.079	<0.001

T1: d1; T2: d21; T3: d42

C: basal diet; L: basal diet supplemented with 2.0 g/100 kg (20 g/ton) of Lactobacillus acidophilus D2/CSL.

Different letters in the same row denote significant difference.