Table 1. Effects of guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) supplementation on growth performance of broiler chickens from 1 to 42 days of age.
Variable | Control | GAA (0.5 g/kg) | GAA (1 g/kg) | GAA (1.5 g/kg) | GAA (2 g/kg) | LSD |
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Body weight gain | 2101b | 2223ab | 2185ab | 2216ab | 2268a | 138.4 |
Feed intake | 3912 | 4008 | 3918 | 3987 | 4027 | 111.7 |
Feed conversion ratio | 1.91a | 1.87ab | 1.77b | 1.76b | 1.84ab | 0.118 |
Means in the same row with different letters are significantly different (P<0.05). The unit for body weight gain and feed intake values is grams per bird. Number of replicates=4.