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. 2017 Apr 27;3(3):252–257. doi: 10.1016/j.aninu.2017.04.007

Table 5.

Effects of corn stored for different years on breast-muscle quality in broiler chickens at d 42 (Exp. 1).1

Item Corn storage time, yr
 SEM P-value
2 3 4 5 Linear Quadratic
% of body weight 19.22 20.40 19.75 19.52 0.315 0.243 0.837
Drip loss, % 2.25b 2.93b 1.86b 3.54a 0.161 <0.001 0.001
pH 5.68a 5.53a 5.57a 5.25b 0.038 <0.001 0.113

a,b Means within a row lacking a common superscript differ (P < 0.05).

1

Data are means of 6 replicates per treatment with one randomly selected broiler chicken from each of 6 pens, which were selected randomly from 8 pens.