Table 3.
Item | Experimental treatments |
SEM | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Control | Probiotic | Milk kefir | Molasses kefir | ||
Carcass, % | 67.3 | 68.5 | 67.6 | 67.5 | 0.60 |
Abdominal fat, % | 0.97 | 1.07 | 1.21 | 1.37 | 0.60 |
Liver, % | 2.37 | 2.51 | 2.56 | 2.58 | 0.20 |
Gizzard, % | 1.94 | 1.71 | 1.85 | 1.94 | 0.03 |
Proventriculus, % | 0.43 | 0.50 | 0.49 | 0.53 | 0.07 |
Pancreas, % | 0.285 | 0.275 | 0.282 | 0.266 | 0.04 |
Small intestine, % | 6.44 | 5.83 | 5.79 | 5.66 | 2.10 |
Cecum, % | 0.812 | 0.952 | 0.844 | 0.893 | 0.10 |
Small intestine, cm | 247.0a | 232abc | 217bc | 210c | 11.1 |
Cecum, cm | 41ab | 44a | 40b | 40b | 1.7 |
SEM = standard error of mean.
a–c Values in the same row not sharing a common superscript differ (P < 0.05).