Table 6. Effect of diets supplemented with different amounts of phytase on relative weights of visceral organs of broilers 35 days after hatching1.
Item | CON | LPY | HPY | SEM2 | Pvalue |
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Liver, % | 2.20b | 2.24b | 3.27a | 0.100 | 0.001 |
Heart, % | 0.52a | 0.39b | 0.51a | 0.020 | 0.003 |
Gizzard, % | 1.02 | 0.97 | 1.06 | 0.050 | 0.462 |
Small intestine, % | 5.12 | 4.84 | 4.75 | 0.210 | 0.367 |
Values are the mean of six replicates per treatment (N=270)
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
Means in the same row with different superscripts differ significantly (P<0.05).