Table 3.

The effects of feeding yeast bioactives (YB) to broiler breeders and/or their offspring on growth performance of broiler chicks before challenge with Eimeria (day 0 to 9).¹

		ADFI,	ADG,	FCR,	BW,
Item		g/bird/day	g/bird/day	g/g	g/bird
Main effect, sex
Male		24.49	23.62a	1.05b	235.9a
Female		24.70	19.61b	1.27a	200.2b
SEM		1.126	0.786	0.040	7.102
Main effect, feed
Broiler breeder	Broiler chicks
Control	Control	24.73	22.71	1.13	228.1
YB	Control	24.81	20.64	1.22	209.4
Control	YB	24.18	21.65	1.06	218.0
YB	YB	24.65	21.45	1.22	216.7
SEM		1.592	1.112	0.056	10.04
Probabilities (P-value)
Sex		0.894	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Feed		0.992	0.627	0.433	0.627
Sex × Feed		0.777	0.994	0.487	0.993

^a,bMeans assigned different letter superscripts within a response criterion differ, P < 0.05.

¹BW, body weight; ADG, average daily gain; ADFI, average daily feed intake; FCR, feed conversion ratio.