Table 4.

Significance of the effects of sex and maternal dietary treatments on broiler carcass parts yield (% of live BW).

	Pectoralis major	Pectoralis minor	Breast	Legs	Wings	Carcass
Source	–––––––––––––––––––––––––– Prob > F ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Sex	0.002	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.81	0.005
MEREAR (ER)	0.93	0.46	0.96	0.17	0.21	0.089
CPREAR (PR)	0.45	0.43	0.64	0.13	0.046	0.95
MELAY (EL)	0.29	0.23	0.24	0.48	0.52	0.56
Sex × ER	0.63	0.58	0.59	0.71	0.24	0.35
Sex × PR	0.31	0.79	0.34	0.079	0.051	0.13
Sex × EL	0.25	0.56	0.27	0.54	0.96	0.45
ER × PR	0.88	0.39	0.78	0.33	0.55	0.036
ER × EL	0.71	0.25	0.93	0.36	0.97	0.55
PR × EL	0.87	0.31	0.97	0.55	0.29	0.59
Sex × ER × PR	0.37	0.75	0.47	0.24	0.86	0.44
Sex × ER × EL	0.18	0.088	0.15	0.46	0.53	0.48
Sex × PR × EL	0.008	0.061	0.009	0.35	0.74	0.038
ER × PR × EL	0.80	0.82	0.82	0.92	0.72	0.18
Sex × ER × PR × EL	0.89	0.95	0.87	0.27	0.72	0.17

ME_REAR = maternal dietary ME treatment during rearing; CP_REAR = maternal dietary CP treatment during rearing; ME_LAY = maternal dietary ME treatment during lay.