Table 2.

Growth performance of Partridge Shank chickens fed diets supplemented with or without mannanoligosaccharide (MOS).

Items	Control	0.5 g/kg MOS	1 g/kg MOS	1.5 g/kg MOS	SEM	p-Value
						L	Q
ADG (g/days)
1–21days	17.31	16.50	16.72	16.92	0.151	0.489	0.102
22–42days	43.81	43.43	43.63	43.37	0.340	0.732	0.939
1–42days	32.68	32.12	32.33	32.26	0.221	0.617	0.601
ADFI (g/days)
1–21days	27.04	25.89	26.72	25.74	0.246	0.156	0.860
22–42days	101.42	93.65	102.35	98.52	0.944	0.999	0.158
1–42days	69.55	64.78	69.99	67.41	0.580	0.753	0.204
FCR (g:g)
1–21days	1.56	1.57	1.60	1.52	0.011	0.246	0.052
22–42days	2.31	2.16	2.35	2.27	0.020	0.605	0.191
1–42days	2.13	2.02	2.17	2.09	0.015	0.646	0.438

MOS = mannanoligosaccharide; ADG = average daily gain; ADFI = average daily feed intake; FCR = feed conversion ratio; SEM = standard error of means (each treatment included 48 chickens and consisted of 6 replicates); L = linear; Q = quadratic.