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

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
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
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).