Table 1.
Effect of Saccharomyces cerevisiae boulardii CNCM I-1079 supplemented diets on the growth performance of chickens (g).
| Items | Diet x Time | Effects | p | ||||
| Live weight | Day 1 | Day 21 | Day 28 | Day 40 | |||
| C | 40.74 G | 464.45 E | 824.23 C | 1791.46 B | Diet | <0.0001 | |
| S | 36.14 G | 667.11 F | 1078.67 D | 2021.03 A | Time | <0.0001 | |
| Diet × time | <0.0001 | ||||||
| SEM | 17.980 | 17.980 | 17.980 | 24.24 | |||
| ADG |
Day
0–21 |
Day
21–27 |
Day
28–40 |
Overall | |||
| C | 21.18 D | 59.96 B | 74.66 A | 51.94 | Diet | 0.0008 | |
| S | 31.53 C | 68.75 A | 72.84 A | 57.71 | Time | <0.0001 | |
| Diet × time | 0.0062 | ||||||
| SEM | 1.901 | 1.098 | |||||
ADG: average daily gain. C: control diet. S: control diet supplemented with 1 × 109 CFU/kg of Saccharomyces cerevisiae boulardii CNCM I-1079. SEM: standard error of the mean. A, B within item, means without a common letter differ (p < 0.05).