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. 2020 Apr 25;57(2):114–123. doi: 10.2141/jpsa.0180112

Table 7. Effect of treatments on the abdominal fat pad, drip loss, and thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances in breast meat (expressed as MDA levels) on day 43.

Treatment1, 2 SEM P-value
1 2 3 4 5
Live weight (kg/bird) 2.63 2.47 2.61 2.42 2.39 0.04 0.195
Carcass weight3 (%) 84.2a 83.5a 84.5a 82.3ab 80.4b 0.44 0.007
Abdominal fat (%) 1.93a 1.63ab 1.76ab 1.40b 1.41b 0.06 0.025
Drip loss (%) 0.96 0.97 0.97 0.97 0.97 0.002 0.539
MDA4 in breast meat (mg/kg) 0.43 0.42 0.43 0.44 0.44 0.008 0.933
1

Treatments: T1 control, T2 avilamycin, T3 crude ethanol extract (CEE) of Jakr-Na-Rai (JNR) granules (0.13% flavonoid), T4 JNR powder (0.13% flavonoid), and T5 JNR powder (0.26% flavonoid).

2

Mean value from six replications per treatment.

3

Carcass weight without feathers, blood, and giblets.

4

Malondialdehyde concentrations

a-b

Means in the same row with different superscript letters are significantly different (P<0.05).