Table 1.
Effects of dietary non-drug feed additive (BSN) on body weight gain (g/bird), feed intake (g/bird), and feed conversion ratio (g/g bird) of the experimental birds.
Dietary Treatments | Statistics | ||||
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NC | PC | BSN | SEM | p-Value | |
0 to 7 d | |||||
BWG | 111.74 | 112.46 | 114.22 | 1.56 | 0.815 |
FI | 145.57 | 151.21 | 139.14 | 2.10 | 0.056 |
FCR | 1.303ab | 1.350a | 1.223b | 0.02 | 0.005 |
0 to 14 d | |||||
BWG | 311.27 | 325.79 | 314.44 | 5.92 | 0.596 |
FI | 473.58b | 523.09a | 462.40b | 8.64 | 0.004 |
FCR | 1.528 | 1.619 | 1.475 | 0.03 | 0.082 |
15 to 28 d | |||||
BWG | 771.53 | 874.56 | 906.39 | 24.17 | 0.051 |
FI | 1451.3 | 1495.0 | 1483.6 | 27.94 | 0.817 |
FCR | 1.906a | 1.711b | 1.643b | 0.04 | 0.004 |
15 to 42 d | |||||
BWG | 1692.0 | 1902.7 | 1856.9 | 47.95 | 0.171 |
FI | 3360.9 | 3603.1 | 3506.1 | 72.46 | 0.407 |
FCR | 2.00a | 1.894b | 1.894b | 0.02 | 0.048 |
0 to 42 d | |||||
BWG | 2003.3 | 2228.5 | 2171.3 | 52.16 | 0.191 |
FI | 3834.4 | 4126.2 | 3968.6 | 77.15 | 0.316 |
FCR | 1.925 | 1.854 | 1.833 | 0.02 | 0.102 |