. 2018 Jul 3;97(11):4020–4030. doi: 10.3382/ps/pey276

Table 6.

Performance data of broilers depending on experimental infection with C. jejuni using complete diets with different amino acid patterns.

Item	CN				CP
	SP diet		LP diet		SP diet		LP diet
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Body weight (g)
Day 7	194	21.3	198	21.8	197	16.5	196	19.0
Day 14	518	43.4	512	49.5	513	37.8	515	43.2
Day 21	1031^a	95.5	996^b	112	1006^ab	88.3	997^b	109
Day 42	3256^a	366	3088^b	370	3164^ab	385	3124^ab	469
Dissection	3463^a	386	3267^b	388	3329^ab	412	3292^b	498
Carcass weight¹ (g)	2869^a	328	2704^b	331	2757^b	350	2712^b	426
Dressing percentage	82.9^a	0.93	82.8^a	0.96	82.8^a	1.08	82.4^b	1.35
WFR (g/g)	1.86^a	0.04	1.74^b	0.07	1.82^ab	0.05	1.77^ab	0.14
FCR (g/g)	1.63^ab	0.02	1.65^a	0.03	1.61^b	0.02	1.66^a	0.02
CPE (kg/kg DM)	3.27^b	0.04	3.60^a	0.07	3.32^b	0.04	3.59^a	0.03
AA_GL intake	8.80^a	0.24	8.32^b	0.17	8.50^ab	0.36	8.46^ab	0.25
AA_CM intake	13.6^a	0.38	11.0^b	0.23	13.1^a	0.55	11.2^b	0.33

CN = without experimental C. jejuni infection; CP = with experimental C. jejuni infection; SP diet = standard protein diet; LP diet = low protein diet; WFR = water-feed ratio in kg water intake/kg diet intake as fed; FCR = feed conversion ratio in kg diet intake as fed/kg body weight gain; CPE = crude protein efficiency in kg body weight gain/kg crude protein intake; AA_GL = sum “growth limiting” amino acids like arginine, isoleucine, lysine, methionine, threonine, and valine; AA_CM = sum of amino acids C. jejuni metabolizable like aspartic acid, glutamic acid, proline, and serine.

¹After exsanguation, evisceration and without head and legs, including feathers.

^a,bValues within a row with different superscripts differ significantly at P < 0.05.