Table 3.

Effects of inorganic and bacterial organic Se sources on serum and tissues Se concentration, and selenium retention in broiler chickens

Parameters	Dietary treatments a					SEM	P value
	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5		Anova	B	O
0–21 days
Ingested Se µg/g	101.05b	403.91a	413.81a	406.80a	407.65a	32.82	< 0.0001	< 0.0001	0.0632
Excreted Se µg/g	45.71d	179.95ab	233.38a	170.57b	109.08c	17.41	< 0.0001	< 0.0001	0.4766
Retention %	54.76b	55.45b	46.08b	58.07b	73.24a	2.82	0.012	0.4694	0.4550
22–42 days
Ingested Se µg/g	236.3e	705.6d	792.2c	819.9b	920.4a	63.95	< 0.0001	< 0.0001	< 0.0001
Excreted Se µg/g	118.33c	233.37b	232.75b	302.16a	256.00ab	17.62	0.001	< 0.0001	0.1841
Retention %	49.93b	66.93a	70.62a	63.15a	72.19a	2.39	0.002	0.0002	0.6183

B = basal diet VS Se supplemented diets, O = organic Se VS inorganic Se, P < 0.05 = significant differences

^{a− c}Means with different letter within a row differed significantly

^aT1; 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