. 2019 Jul 1;33(4):579–587. doi: 10.5713/ajas.19.0220

Table 3.

Effects of dietary treatments on body weight gain (g/bird) of chicks at different ages

Items	Inclusion levels (g/kg)	0 to 10 d	0 to 24 d	0 to 35 d
Control	0.0	278^b	1,274^c	2,210^c
Whole yeast	0.5	285^b	1,275^c	2,225^c
	1.0	289^b	1,302^ab	2,317^b
	1.5	287^b	1,318^b	2,318^b
	2.0	303^a	1,346^a	2,368^b
Yeast cell wall	0.5	286^b	1,284^c	2,294^c
	1.0	304^a	1,320^ab	2,336^b
	1.5	305^a	1,340^a	2,414^a
	2.0	306^a	1,358^a	2,494^a
SEM		1.94	7.10	2.10
p-value		0.01	0.01	0.01
Probability levels of orthogonal contrasts
Control vs yeast		0.001	0.02	0.03
Control vs whole yeast		0.01	0.04	0.04
Control vs yeast cell wall		0.001	0.01	0.002
Whole yeast vs yeast cell wall		0.21	0.11	0.04

Values are means of 6 replicates.

SEM, standard error of the mean.

^a–c

Means in a column not sharing a common superscript differ (p<0.05).