Table 3.
Effects of marigold flower and antibiotic on carcass yield and internal relative organ weight of broilers at 42 d of age (%).
| Item | Dietary treatments |
SEM | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | antibiotic | 5 g marigold/kg | 10 g marigold/kg | |||
| Carcass | 65.6b | 65.7b | 66.6a | 65.3b | 0.27 | 0.03 |
| Abdominal fat | 0.54b | 0.57ab | 0.42b | 0.79a | 0.03 | 0.04 |
| Liver | 2.88 | 2.69 | 2.61 | 2.67 | 0.04 | 0.07 |
| Gizzard | 1.72b | 1.83ab | 1.94ab | 2.04a | 0.04 | 0.03 |
| Heart | 0.59 | 0.65 | 0.68 | 0.64 | 0.01 | 0.07 |
| Proventriculus | 0.41 | 0.41 | 0.40 | 0.41 | 0.01 | 0.06 |
| Small intestine | 3.66 | 3.73 | 3.61 | 3.64 | 0.09 | 0.07 |
| Bursa | 0.115 | 0.119 | 0.132 | 0.131 | 0.005 | 0.08 |
| Spleen | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.007 | 0.08 |
| Small intestine, cm | 194 | 189 | 185 | 197 | 2.0 | 0.09 |
| Cecum, cm | 37 | 37 | 38 | 38 | 0.6 | 0.07 |
a, b Within a row, values not sharing a common superscript differ at P < 0.05.