. 2020 Aug 18;7:349. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2020.00349

Table 4.

Effect of different dietary treatments on weight (g) and length (cm) of duodenum, jejunum and ileum of broilers (n = 6 chicks per treatment, mean ± SE).

Parameters	Dietary treatments
	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5	T6
Weight on day 21
Duodenum, g	9.78 ± 0.55^b	10.47 ± 0.61^b	11.96 ± 0.70^a	12.04 ± 0.35^a	9.73 ± 0.43^b	9.28 ± 0.34^b
Jejunum, g	17.3 ± 1.00^a	16.2 ± 0.77^a	19.7 ± 1.29^a	18.6 ± 0.77^a	19.3 ± 0.47^a	18.2 ± 0.71^a
Ileum, g	12.4 ± 0.71^b	13.3 ± 0.75^b	15.7 ± 0.61^a	15.2 ± 0.40^a	12.9 ± 0.19^b	11.9 ± 5.81^b
Weight on day 42
Duodenum, g	3.78 ± 0.20^b	4.39 ± 0.28^ab	5.32 ± 0.12^a	6.23 ± 0.42^a	4.89 ± 0.08^ab	5.01 ± 0.06^ab
Jejunum, g	8.38 ± 0.45^b	10.94 ± 0.75^b	14.89 ± 0.45^a	16.45 ± 0.58^a	10.84 ± 0.21^b	10.12 ± 0.55^b
Ileum, g	3.68 ± 0.09^b	5.71 ± 0.45^ab	8.83 ± 0.39^a	8.13 ± 0.17^a	5.81 ± 0.36^ab	6.27 ± 0.49^ab
Length on day 21
Duodenum, cm	30.9 ± 1.30^b	34.3 ± 1.79^b	42.2 ± 1.02^a	47.5 ± 1.20^a	30.6 ± 0.66^b	30.4 ± 0.50^b
Jejunum, cm	74.0 ± 1.88^b	70.5 ± 2.34^b	90.9 ± 3.32^a	94.3 ± 4.94^a	78.1 ± 3.77^b	76.7 ± 3.35^b
Ileum, cm	64.0 ± 2.40^b	64.8 ± 21.46^b	71.8 ± 2.86^a	69.1 ± 2.08^a	68.0 ± 0.19^b	66.9 ± 2.26^b
Length on day 42
Duodenum, cm	8.42 ± 0.47^b	7.34 ± 0.41^b	10.04 ± 0.68^a	11.82 ± 0.17^a	8.75 ± 0.53^b	9.62 ± 0.13^b
Jejunum, cm	28.0 ± 0.97^b	24.5 ± 1.71^b	36.5 ± 2.70^ab	45.7 ± 2.78^a	26.9 ± 1.70^b	30.0 ± 1.30^b
Ileum, cm	23.9 ± 0.85^b	21.5 ± 0.72^b	33.6 ± 1.78^a	32.8 ± 2.08^a	26.0 ± 0.61^b	23.6 ± 0.76^b

Within rows, values followed by the same letter are not significantly (P>0.05) different according to Duncan's multiple range test; T1, Positive control; T2, Negative control; T3, CSBD + 10% DDP; T4, CSBD + 0.2% MOS; T5, CSBD + 0.2% mannose; T6, CSBD + 0.1% mannose. CSBD, corn-soy basal diet; DDP, degraded date pits; MOS, mannan-oligosaccharides.