Table 4.

Effect of dietary treatments on growth performance of broilers.¹

	Starter phase			Grower phase			Overall performance
	(d 0 to 21)			(d 21 to 39)			(d 0 to 39)
	AWG2	AFI3	FCR4	AWG	AFI	FCR	AWG	AFI	FCR
Item	(kg/bird)	(kg/bird)	(kg/kg)	(kg/bird)	(kg/bird)	(kg/kg)	(kg/bird)	(kg/bird)	(kg/kg)
Treatment
T1	0.773	1.077	1.400	0.381	2.948	1.611	2.618	4.025	1.544
T2	0.821	1.076	1.314	0.428	2.915	1.579	2.695	3.991	1.495
T3	0.776	1.024	1.327	0.461	2.865	1.533	2.660	3.890	1.471
T4	0.829	1.085	1.316	0.479	2.943	1.543	2.748	4.028	1.472
SEM	0.014	0.016	0.027	0.020	0.036	0.023	0.029	0.047	0.016
P-values for contrast5
T1 vs. T2	0.002	0.979	0.004	0.027	0.361	0.182	0.02	0.484	0.007
T1 vs. T3	0.842	0.003	0.012	<0.001	0.031	0.002	0.181	0.009	<0.001
T1 vs. T4	<0.001	0.584	0.005	<0.001	0.889	0.007	<0.001	0.94	<0.001
Linear	0.011	0.614	0.010	0.579	0.579	0.002	0.001	0.559	<0.001

¹All means are average of 10 pens per treatment.

²AWG = Average weight gain.

³AFI = Average feed intake.

⁴FCR = Feed conversion ratio.

T₁ = Control; T₂ = 0.02 g/kg TYPLEX^® Chelate; T₃ = 0.05 g/kg TYPLEX^® Chelate; T₄ = 0.20 g/kg TYPLEX^® Chelate.

⁵Significance level (P ≤ 0.05).