Table 2.

Effects of inorganic selenium and different sources of bacterial selenoprotein on carcass characteristics and internal organs in broiler chickens

	Dietary Treatments 1
Parameters	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5	SEM	p
Carcass characteristics
Final body weight (g)	2008	2082.1	2054.8	2075.4	2093.9	21.65	0.064
Carcass yield%	72.39	72.36	73.44	75.85	76.57	1.039	0.141
Breast%	36.02	35.80	34.45	34.82	35.87	0.628	0.927
Thigh%	9.56	8.56	8.71	8.12	7.45	0.439	0.238
Drumstick%	7.91	5.90	5.80	5.96	6.26	0.421	0.074
Abdominal Fat%	1.296	1.827	2.482	2.327	2.554	0.167	0.060
Internal Organs (% of live weight)
Liver%	2.827	2.849	2.817	2.395	2.877	0.088	0.412
Spleen%	0.164	0.159	0.173	0.138	0.154	0.008	0.788
Gizzard%	3.981	3.312	3.854	3.284	3.511	0.142	0.452
Thymus%	0.328	0.212	0.159	0.228	0.279	0.024	0.268
Bursal%	0.067	0.088	0.099	0.069	0.068	0.007	0.657

¹ T1: basal diet, T2: basal diet + 0.3 mg/kg feed sodium selenite, T3: basal diet + 0.3 mg/kg feed ADS1 Se, T4: basal diet + 0.3 mg/kg feed ADS2 Se, T5: basal diet + 0.3 mg/kg feed ADS18 Se; SEM = standard error of mean.