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. 2020 Aug 28;99(11):5867–5873. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2020.08.028

Table 3.

Growth performance of broilers fed with commercial diet alone or diet diluted with copra meal or cassava leaf meal and enzyme supplementation.

Treatment Starter phase (8–21 d)
Finisher phase (22–35 d)
FI (g/bird) WG (g/bird) F:G (g feed:g gain) FI (g/bird) WG (g/bird) F:G (g feed:g gain)
Control 1,051 803 1.31b 2,811 1,735a 1.62c
Control + CM without enzyme 1,037 710 1.46a 2,515 1,338c 1.88a
Control + CM with enzyme 1,032 788 1.31b 2,740 1,548a,b 1.77a,b,c
Control + CLM without enzyme 1,022 730 1.40a,b 2,558 1,390b,c 1.84a,b
Control + CLM with enzyme 1,035 734 1.41a,b 2,619 1,578a 1.66b,c
SEM 31 28 0.042 91.0 62.0 0.065
Main effects
 Diet
 Control 1,051 803 1.31 2,811 1,735 1.62
 Control + CM 1,035 749 1.38 2,628 1,443 1.82
 Control + CLM 1,028 732 1.40 2,589 1,484 1.74
Enzyme
 Without 1,030 720 1.43 2,537 1,364 1.86
 With 1,034 761 1.36 2,680 1,563 1.71
Probabilities
 Diet 0.094 0.000 0.068 0.101 0.000 0.002
 Enzyme 0.153 0.152 0.508 0.153 0.000 0.001
 Diet × enzyme 0.087 0.091 0.046 0.078 0.032 0.004

a,b,cTreatment means with common superscripts do not differ (P < 0.05).

Abbreviations: CLM, cassava leaf meal; CM, copra meal; F:G, feed-to-gain ratio; FI, feed intake; WG, weight gain.