Table 3.

Growth performance of broiler chickens fed a corn–soybean meal diet supplemented with nucleotide-rich yeast extract (YN) before (d 0 to 10) Eimeria challenge.

	YN, g/mt
	0	500	SEM	P-value
Initial BW, g	40.6	40.6	0.177	–
Final BW, g	303.7	303.9	3.043	0.949
BWG, g/bird	252.5	253.2	3.133	0.879
Feed intake, g/bird	291.4	285.7	2.696	0.139
FCR	1.154b	1.128a	0.007	0.005

Means assigned different letter superscripts within a row differ, P ≤ 0.05.