Table 5.
Effects of dietary treatments on intestinal morphology indices in broiler chickens at 35 days of age3.
| Item | Treatments |
SEM7 | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | XG4 | XG + P5 | XG + A6 | |||
| Villus length, μm | 1,360.212 | 1,442.721,2 | 1,574.201 | 1,531.111 | 40.6 | 0.03 |
| Villus width, μm | 232.27 | 232.71 | 232.15 | 223.87 | 9.69 | 0.99 |
| Crypt depth, μm | 236.52 | 248.72 | 253.64 | 263.60 | 7.37 | 0.62 |
| Villus length/Villus width | 5.85 | 6.30 | 7.02 | 6.88 | 0.25 | 0.41 |
| Villus length/Crypt depth | 5.81 | 5.87 | 6.32 | 5.86 | 0.27 | 0.93 |
1, 2Means not sharing the same superscripts are significantly different (P < 0.05).
3
Data represent the mean of 6 replicate pens of 10 broiler chickens per pen.
4
XG = xylanase and β-glucanase (100 g/t; Natugrain, BASF, Germany).
5
P = phytase (100 g/t; Phyzyme XP 5000, Danisco Animal Nutrition, UK).
6
A = acidifier (3,000 g/t; BioAcid Ultra, Biochem, Germany).
7
SEM = standard error of the mean.