Table 1.
Mortality of chickens and housing condition.
| Group | No.Chick/ House at Day 1 |
No.Chick/ m2 at Day 1 |
Final No.Chick/ House at Day 42 |
Hatchability (%) | Mortality at Day 7 (%) |
Total Mortality (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RFO | 24500 | 22 | 22769 | 84.56 | 1.78 | 2.9 |
| Control | 24500 | 22 | 22705 | 85.35 | 2.08 | 3.3 |
| SE | n/a | n/a | 32 | 0.3950 | 0.15 | 0.2 |
| p | n/a | n/a | 0.2952 | 0.2958 | 0.2952 | 0.2926 |
RFO—group injected with raffinose family oligosaccharides at day 12 of egg incubation; Control—group injected with physiological saline (0.9% NaCl). Significance: p ≤ 0.05.