Table 5. Bone (right tibia) characteristics of broiler chickens fed L-Met diets.
| Treatments | Pooled SEM | p-values | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D0 | D1 | D2 | D3 | |||
| Bone weight (gm/bird/tibia) | 4.91 | 5.73 | 5.57 | 6.06 | 0.191 | 0.244 |
| Bone length (mm) | 79.91 | 85.12 | 84.53 | 85.71 | 0.799 | 0.091 |
| Bone width (mm) | 6.71 | 6.63 | 7.26 | 7.00 | 0.123 | 0.327 |
| Bone head width (mm) | 13.95 | 14.36 | 13.60 | 14.33 | 0.232 | 0.456 |
| Ca % | 7.48 | 7.56 | 7.33 | 7.76 | 0.112 | 0.621 |
| P % | 3.10 | 3.20 | 4.32 | 4.25 | 0.179 | 0.131 |
Each value indicates the mean of four replicates consisting of 4 birds per treatment at 33 days.