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. 2020 Jan 25;57(1):28–36. doi: 10.2141/jpsa.0180143

Table 5. Effect of diets supplemented with different amounts of phytase on carcass parameters of broilers 35 days after hatching1.

Item CON LPY HPY SEM2 P value
Carcass weight, % 74.34 71.91 71.06 1.330 0.792
Breast muscle weight, % 26.21 24.98 25.37 0.500 0.250
Thigh muscle weight, % 5.49 5.97 5.75 1.560 0.127
1

Values are the mean of six replicates per treatment (N=270)

2

Pooled standard error of mean

CON: control diet (phosphorous-sufficient diet with dicalcium phosphate)

LPY: phosphorous-deficient diet with 0.01% phytase (500 FTU/kg) without dicalcium phosphate

HPY: phosphorous-deficient diet with 0.02% phytase (1000 FTU/kg) without dicalcium phosphate

a, b

Means in the same row with different superscripts differ significantly (P<0.05).