Table 5.
The biochemical profile in growing broiler chickens, injected with RFO prebiotic in ovo, at day 12 of egg incubation.
| Day | Group | Protein (g/dL) |
Albumins (g/dL) |
Globulins (g/dL) |
Bilirubin (mg/dL) |
Triglycerides (mg/dL) |
Cholesterol (mg/dL) |
HDL (mg/dL) |
LDL (mg/dL) |
ALT (u/L) |
AST (u/L) |
Ca (mg/dL) |
Fe (mg/dL) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RFO | 2.5 a ± 0.2 | 1.1 a ± 0.1 | 1.3 a ± 0.1 | 0.2 a ± 0.0 * | 68.8 a ± 10.9 | 474.5 a ± 21.9 | 228.0 a ± 16.6 | 232.7 a ± 12.2 | 17.8 a ± 1.3 | 227.8 a ± 17.5 | 9.6 a ± 0.4 | 103.8 a ± 59.8 |
| Control | 2.4 a ± 0.4 | 1.0 b ± 0.1 | 1.3 a ± 0.2 | 0.2 b ± 0.0 * | 79.3 a ± 11.5 | 484.5 a ± 50.0 | 187.7 a ± 137.0 | 152.3 a ± 130.9 | 20.9 a ± 5.3 | 325.6 a ± 253.1 | 10.0 a ± 0.4 | 90.4 a ± 54.4 | |
| p | 0.794 | 0.033 | 0.674 | 0.018 | 0.112 | 0.657 | 0.492 | 0.163 | 0.197 | 0.368 | 0.087 | 0.668 | |
| 21 | RFO | 2.6 a ± 0.7 | 1.3 a ± 0.5 | 1.2a ± 0.2 | 0.2 a ± 0.0 | 78.9 a ± 22.6 | 121.6 a ± 15.0 | 66.7 a ± 10.3 | 39.2 a ± 6.1 | 14.4 a ± 1.9 | 237.5 a ± 24.8 | 10.5 a ± 0.7 | 92.8 a ± 60.5 |
| Control | 2.9 a ± 0.4 | 1.6 a ± 0.2 | 1.3 a ± 0.2 | 0.2 a ± 0.0 | 87.3 a ± 24.5 | 137.9 a ± 26.3 | 79.8 a ± 16.1 | 40.7 a ± 9.3 | 15.5 a ± 2.5 | 233.4 a ± 35.3 | 10.2 a ± 0.8 | 123.3 a ± 62.8 | |
| p | 0.152 | 0.120 | 0.341 | 0.689 | 0.450 | 0.131 | 0.058 | 0.688 | 0.292 | 0.780 | 0.369 | 0.293 | |
| 42 | RFO | 3.1 b ± 0.2 | 1.6 b ± 0.0 | 1.5 b ± 0.2 | 0.1 b ± 0.0 | 67.4 a ± 13.5 | 119.4 a ± 14.0 | 67.7 a ± 10.8 | 38.2 a ± 8.0 | 10.9 b ± 1.4 | 245.1 b ± 24.1 | 11.0 a ± 0.8 | 166.1 a ± 84.3 |
| Control | 3.6 a ± 0.3 | 1.8 a ± 0.1 | 1.8 a ± 0.2 | 0.2 a ± 0.0 | 79.4 a ± 34.2 | 115.3 a ± 20.6 | 48.3 b ± 22.8 | 39.6 a ± 31.8 | 15.1 a ± 2.4 | 353.3 a ± 75.9 | 10.2 b ± 0.5 | 124.8 a ± 85.7 | |
| p | 0.002 | <0.001 | 0.026 | 0.006 | 0.372 | 0.647 | 0.047 | 0.909 | 0.001 | 0.002 | 0.032 | 0.347 |
* The exact mean ± SD for the RFO was 0.163 ± 0.005 and for the Control was 0.18 ± 0.014; RFO—raffinose family oligosaccharides, HDL—cholesterol high density lipoprotein, LDL—cholesterol low density lipoprotein, ALT—alanine aminotransferase, AST—aspartate aminotransferase, Ca—calcium, Fe—ferrum; a,b mean values with the same letter are not significantly different at p ≤ 0.05.